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



Evidence shows that wages are positively correlated to tenure (due to increasing
experience, firm-specific human capital, or efficiency wages), potential experience, and
schooling. On the other side, spatial mobility is negatively correlated to age, and
distance, and positively correlated to schooling.

3. JOB MOBILITY, SPATIAL MOBILITY AND WAGE MOBILITY

In this section we analyse job, spatial and wage mobility in the Portuguese economy.
We are concerned with the joint effects of a worker experiencing several types of
mobility.
Figure 1 summarizes the possible situations.

Figure 1

Types of mobility

In cell I we have the situation of a stayer that maintains hers professional status quo. In
cell II we have situations of workers that stay in the same employer but change
workplace, either because they were relocated among firm different locations or because
the firm relocate its activity. More relevant situations for this paper are cells 3 and,
mainly, 4 where there is job mobility and in some cases conjugated with spatial
mobility.

The hypothesis that we intend to test is whether workers that experience both job and
spatial mobility earns higher wage.

3.1.Data

To address the question we use data from a Longitudinal Matched Employer-Employee
Micro-data Set (LMEEM) that was constructed to analyse job and worker flows in the



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