Estimating the Employer Switching Costs and Wage Responses of Forward‐Looking Engineers
利用瑞典私营企业工程师数据，通过动态规划离散选择模型估计雇主转换成本及工资政策的重要性，发现多数工程师转换成本较高，少数经验丰富者对外部工资报价敏感，年轻工人更敏感。
This article estimates worker switching costs and how much the employer switching of experienced engineers responds to outside wage offers. I use data on engineers across Swedish private sector firms to estimate the relative importance of employer wage policies and switching costs in a dynamic programming, discrete choice model of employer choice. The differentiated firms are modeled in employer characteristic space, and each firm has its own age-wage profile. A majority of engineers have moderately high switching costs and a minority of experienced workers are responsive to outside wage offers. Younger workers are more sensitive to outside wage offers. (c) 2010 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.