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The relative impacts of the level and change in wages on quits

Carl M. Campbell (Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA)

International Journal of Manpower

ISSN: 0143-7720

Article publication date: 1 November 1995

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Abstract

Investigates the effects on quits of the current level of wages and the change in wages in order to test the proposition that the change in wages has a negative impact on quits, even controlling for the current level of wages. Finds that the percentage deviation in a worker′s wage change from its predicted level has an effect on quits that is three to six times stronger than the effect of the percentage deviation in a worker′s current wage from its predicted level. Claims this result may have implications for the behaviour of firms in setting wages and in the behaviour of wages over the business cycle.

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Campbell, C.M. (1995), "The relative impacts of the level and change in wages on quits", International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 16 No. 9, pp. 31-41. https://doi.org/10.1108/01437729510102693

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