Relative Wages, Wage Growth, and Quit Behavior
利用意大利都灵1981-1983年企业样本中男性工人的社保记录，发现控制个人工资后，企业内同类工人的平均工资与离职率负相关，且该变量能预测未来工资增长，支持工人基于长期就业价值比较做出离职决策的经济模型。
Using Italian Social Security records for male workers from a sample of firms in Turin from 1981 to 1983, the authors show that, conditional on the worker's own wage, the average wage in the establishment for similar workers is negatively related to quits. They also find that this variable predicts future wage growth. This is consistent with an economic model in which workers compare the long-run value of employment opportunities when making quit decisions. Copyright 1998 by University of Chicago Press.