Mover-Stayer Wage Gap Analysis

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To understand the wage impact of provincial mobility separately from occupational mobility we consider all-year-employed and paid male workers who are between age of 30 and 55 years. Table \ref{occmwg} represents mover-stayer wage gap compared to whether workers changed their occupations or not. For comparison purpose workers who changed neither province nor occupation is the base in our analysis. We find that male workers who changed their province, but remain in same occupation (cell-3) earn the most compared to the benchmark (cell-4). However, among the provincial stayers, occupational movers earn 6.6\% less than the workers who neither change their province nor occupation. So, provincial movers require higher wage to compensate the moving

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