A hobo syndrome? Mobility, wages, and job turnover

Group-specific Effects of Inter‐regional Mobility on Earnings – A Microdata Analysis for Germany

“…LIGHT and MCGARRY (1998, p.276), for instance, find "… that workers who undergo persistent mobility have lower log-wage paths than less mobile workers". This result is corroborated by more recent studies like MUNASINGHE and SIGMAN (2004). Another strand of the literature explicitly deals with the determinants of job changes (FARBER, 1999) and the differences in occupational mobility patterns (HEITMUELLER, 2004).…”

Job Disamenities, Job Satisfaction, and On-the-job Search: Is There a Nexus?

“…Previous changes in occupation and previous job switches predict current on-the-job search, which is in accordance with the hobo syndrome reported by Munasinghe and Sigman (2004). Workers with temporary contracts and part-time workers search for new jobs more frequently, and part-timers also have more job switch intentions.…”

“…Empirical studies have demonstrated that there are workers' characteristics such as age, sex, marital status, and education that are important determinants of onthe-job search. In addition, past job changes have been found to predict future separations (Munasinghe and Sigman, 2004). Controlling for past labour market behaviour may also help in obtaining a coefficient for tenure that is not affected by worker heterogeneity in the propensity to quit.…”

Career and Wage Dynamics: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

“…Booth et al (1999), Farber (1994, Munasinghe and Sigman (2004), Topel and Ward (1992) are examples of studies analyzing employer changes. Booth and Francesconi (2000), le Grand and Tåhlin (2002), and Pavlopoulos et al (2007) are, on the other hand, examples of the few studies that have distinguished between intra-firm and inter-firm mobility.…”