Wage mobility, Job mobility and Spatial mobility in the Portuguese economy



The results of the estimation considering the wage as the dependent variable are
reported in Table 15.

Table 14

Estimation Results for Wage Model

Source |        SS       df       MS

Number of obs = 1236803


F( 61,1236741)=33133.55

Prob > F      =  0.0000

R-squared     =  0.6204

Adj R-squared =  0.6204

Root MSE      =  .35032


---------+------------------------------

Model |  248043.914    61 4066.29367

Residual |  151778.2241236741  .122724341

---------+------------------------------

Total |  399822.1371236802  .323270934

lsal98

|        Coef.

Std. Err.

t

-P->-|--t|---

[95% Conf.

Interval]

-------------------------

sexo

|  -.2082559

.0006997

-297.65

0.000

-.2096273

-.2068846

mob1

|    .0241476

.0015536

15.54

0.000

.0211026

.0271925

mob2

|     .077264

.005193

14.88

0.000

.0670859

.0874421

mob3

|    .0987891

.0034433

28.69

0.000

.0920404

.1055378

mobsec

|  -.0252569

.0017056

-14.81

0.000

-.0285998

-.0219141

mobemp

|    .0229967

.001574

14.61

0.000

.0199116

.0260817

saimor

|    -.015432

.0016559

-9.32

0.000

-.0186775

-.0121865

entnov

|     .049663

.0016788

29.58

0.000

.0463725

.0529535

antig98

|    .0098432

.0001138

86.46

0.000

.0096201

.0100664

qsup98

|    .7953185

.0023545

337.79

0.000

.7907039

.7999332

qmed98

|    .5320795

.0018837

282.47

0.000

.5283875

.5357715

pqua98

|    .2175058

.0015231

142.80

0.000

.2145205

.2204911

pesp98

|    .0913745

.0016478

55.45

0.000

.0881449

.0946042

pnqua98

|     .002509

.0018047

1.39

0.164

-.0010282

.0060461

school98

|    .0140561

.0004011

35.04

0.000

.0132699

.0148423

pexp98

|    .0047937

.0000358

133.78

0.000

.0047235

.0048639

small98

|    .1433129

.0008993

159.37

0.000

.1415504

.1450755

medium98

|    .2391344

.0009726

245.88

0.000

.2372282

.2410406

big98

|    .3021693

.0011439

264.15

0.000

.2999273

.3044114

ant2

|  -.0001295

3.40e-06

-38.08

0.000

-.0001362

-.0001228

school2

|    .0017435

.0000225

77.56

0.000

.0016994

.0017875

_cons

|    11.09669

149.7557

0.07

0.941

-282.4194

304.6128

Note: 28 regional dummies and 12 industry dummies were included.

The overall quality of the model seems to be good. The results shown seem to be in line
with what was expected. The results confirm the effect of characteristics such as tenure,
experience, and skills and also the effect of spatial and job mobility on wages.

Female workers earn lower wages. There is a premium for tenure but at diminishing
rates given the signal for ant2 (tenure squared). There is also a premium for schooling,
at increasing rates, and for skills. The size of firms has an effect on wages as workers of
larger firms earn higher wages.

With respect to the effects of the variables that account for mobility, we see that
workers that move out of a closing establishment receive lower wages. Moving into a
new establishment seems to have a positive effect on wages.

With respect to the variables that account for the effects of the different types of
mobility on wages we found that industry mobility (
mobsec) has a negative effect on

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