Career Choice and Wage Growth

By Ronni Pavan. Journal of Labor Economics, 2011

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Learning Your Comparative Advantages (2014, background): “More recently, Kambourov and Manovskii (2009a) present results that underline the importance of occupation rather than firm or industry tenure on wages, while Pavan (2011) finds positive returns for both career and firm tenure.”
How General Is Human Capital? A Task‐Based Approach (2010, background): “…on the determinants of switching rms (Flinn, 1986; Topel and Ward, 1992) or both rms and occupations (McCall, 1990; Miller, 1984; Neal, 1998; Pavan, 2005), but has not studied the type and direction of a move.2 Our third contribution is to quantify the contribution of task-speci c human…”
Multidimensional Skills, Sorting, and Human Capital Accumulation (2020, background): “As already mentioned, the two models further differ in the specific assumption regarding skill accumulation (endogenous investment decisions vs. learning-by-doing). impose the boundary condition z(t) exp [− (r + µ+ δ) t] → 0 as t → +∞ to pin down a unique solution to (7).”
Earnings Dynamics, Changing Job Skills, and STEM Careers* (2020, background): “Consider a perfectly competitive labor market with many ca-reers j (we can think of these as industry-occupation pairs, following Neal 1999 and Pavan 2011).”