Decomposing the large firm wage premium in Germany

被引：4
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作者：
Lochner, Benjamin [1 ,2 ]
Seth, Stefan [2 ]
Wolter, Stefanie [2 ]
机构：
[1] Friedrich Alexander Univ Erlangen Nuremberg FAU, Erlangen, Germany
[2] Inst Employment Res IAB, Nurnberg, Germany
来源：
ECONOMICS LETTERS | 2020年 / 194卷
关键词：
Firm size; Wage inequality; Wage premiums; Fixed-effect wage models; Firm and worker heterogeneity; WORKERS;
D O I：
10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109368
中图分类号：
F [经济];
学科分类号：
02 ;
摘要：
We use an extensive, matched employer-employee dataset to analyze the employer-size wage relation and its contribution to wage inequality in Germany. Applying models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments, we document that the large firm wage premium (LFWP), which rose over 25 years, has only recently started to decrease. Our decomposition shows that firm size explains a significant share of the trends in wage inequality. The LFWP accounts for about 20% of the rise in wage inequality from the mid 80s to 2010. From 2010 onward, wage inequality has slightly declined and the LFWP accounts for 33% of this trend reversal. (c) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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