@techreport{64e577227895442291ae6d25512be87c,
title = "Employee Heterogeneity and Within-Firm Experience-Earnings Profiles",
abstract = "Abstract Motivated by a priori uncertainty with respect to the parametric specification of the earnings function, I model the earnings function as semiparametric partially linear model and follow the estimation approach described in Robinson (1988). Using data from the personnel records of a large major UK based financial sector employer, I let years of within-firm and pre-firm experience form the nonparametrically modelled component of the earnings function. It is shown that the estimated within-firm experience earnings profiles, which are conditional upon a given number years of pre-firm experience accumulated before entry, converge and even overtake as years of pre-firm experience increases. This result can be explained with the recognition of unobservable explanatory variables, such as the match and individual quality of the employees, both of which are a function of years of within- and pre-firm experience and wages. ",
author = "Ross Campbell",
year = "2006",
month = dec,
language = "English",
series = "University of Aberdeen Business School Working Paper Series",
publisher = "University of Aberdeen",
number = "08",
address = "United Kingdom",
type = "WorkingPaper",
institution = "University of Aberdeen",
}