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Using Quadros de Pessoal (QP), a matched employer-employee survey, this
paper explores workers’ mobility within and across regions and within and
across employers. The novelty in our work comes from considering the spatial
dimension of internal labour markets combining the spatial and the firm
dimensions of mobility. We emphasize the relevance of space for intra-firm
mobility in multi-plant firms that have establishments in different locations. Our
results seem to suggest that mobility across establishments within the same
employer is a channel to improve wage growth opportunities. This is consistent
with our hypothesis that in multi-plant firms there exists a global internal labour
market based and organized on the firm as a whole. Besides analyzing the
determinants and the returns to different types of mobility we also suggest a
new strategy to isolate the returns to migration by looking at the wage premiums
of workers that migrated without changing employer.
Moreover, the longitudinal dimension of our survey also allow us to
distinguish between immediate and lagged gains to mobility. We conclude that
there exists a larger wage premium when employees have to incur in additional
costs such as those involved in migration. However, we also find that individual
and firm specific characteristics are extremely relevant for this decision and
taking into account individual and firm unobserved heterogeneity considerably
decreases the value of the premium. We also find that, to encourage migration
to non-urban regions, workers demand a higher premium.
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TAVARES, Marisa; CARNEIRO, Anabela; VAREJÃO, José Varejão - The spatial dimension of internal labor markets. - In 5th Portuguese Economic Journal annual meeting, 8-9 July. Aveiro, Portugal. – In Labour Economics 1. Aveiro: PEJ MEETING, 2011