Firms and Labor Market Inequality: Evidence and Some Theory
Firms and Labor Market Inequality: Evidence and Some Theory
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DOI：
10.1086/694153
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Kline, Patrick
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作者：
Card, David;Cardoso, Ana Rute;Kline, Patrick
我们综合了两篇关于企业层面工资不平等驱动因素的相关文献。使用匹配的工人-企业数据进行的租金共享研究发现，工资相对于每名工人增加值的弹性在 0.05-0.15 范围内。对工人和企业固定效应工资决定的研究通常发现，企业特定的保费解释了总体工资变化的 20%。为了解释这些发现，我们开发了一个工资设定模型，在该模型中，工人对不同的工作场所有独特的品味。该模型的简单版本可以使标准固定效应规范合理化，并且还可以匹配文献中典型的租金共享弹性。
We synthesize two related literatures on firm-level drivers of wage inequality. Studies of rent sharing that use matched worker-firm data find elasticities of wages with respect to value added per worker in the range of 0.05-0.15. Studies of wage determination with worker and firm fixed effects typically find that firm-specific premiums explain 20% of overall wage variation. To interpret these findings, we develop a model of wage setting in which workers have idiosyncratic tastes for different workplaces. Simple versions of this model can rationalize standard fixed effects specifications and also match the typical rent-sharing elasticities in the literature.