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Nils Torben Hollandt

Nils Torben Hollandt
Current Position

since 11/20

Economist in the Department of Structural Change and Productivity

Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association

Research Interests
  • applied microeconometrics

Nils Torben Hollandt joined the Department of Structural Change and Productivity as a doctoral student in November 2020. His research focuses on the role of companies in regional wage inequality and mobility.

Nils Torben Hollandt received his bachelor's degree from University of Potsdam and his master's degree from Maastricht University.

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Publications

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The Contribution of Employer Changes to Aggregate Wage Mobility

Nils Torben Hollandt Steffen Müller

in: Oxford Economic Papers, forthcoming

Abstract

<p>Wage mobility reduces the persistence of wage inequality. We develop a framework to quantify the contribution of employer-to-employer movers to aggregate wage mobility. Using three decades of German social security data, we find that inequality increased while aggregate wage mobility decreased. Employer-to-employer movers exhibit higher wage mobility, mainly due to changes in employer wage premia at job change. The massive structural changes following German unification temporarily led to a high number of movers, which in turn boosted aggregate wage mobility. Wage mobility is much lower at the bottom of the wage distribution, and the decline in aggregate wage mobility since the 1980s is concentrated there. The overall decline can be mostly attributed to a reduction in wage mobility per mover, which is due to a compositional shift toward lower-wage movers.</p>

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