How worker productivity evolves with tenure and experience is central to economics, shaping, for example, life …-cycle earnings and the losses from involuntary job separation. Yet, worker-level productivity is hard to identify from observational …-the-job tenure from total experience in determining productivity growth. Several findings emerge concerning the initial period on the …

paper with an emphasis on differences by gender and differences across regions. Some comparisons between China and India and …

seniority evolves over the worker's tenure with the firm and how it affects wages, effort, monitoring intensity and separation … rates. We also show how earnings loss from unemployment reflects seniority and how optimal monitoring intensity, amenities … seniority. We provide a precise measure of seniority as a ratio of co-state variables and illustrate how this measure of …

This paper connects changes in employer characteristics through job transitions to employee earnings following mergers … and acquisitions (M&As). Using firm balance sheet data linked to individual earnings data in Canada and a matched …, workers at target firms suffer losses in earnings, and this decline in earnings is entirely driven by workers who move to …