Wage and Labor Productivity Dispersion: The Roles of Total Factor Productivity, Labor Quality, Capital Intensity, and Rent Sharing∗
Wage and Labor Productivity Dispersion: The Roles of Total Factor Productivity, Labor Quality, Capital Intensity, and Rent Sharing∗
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工资和劳动生产率分散：全要素生产率、劳动质量、资本密集度和租金共享的作用*
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2014
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D. Mortensen
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Jesper Bagger;B. Christensen;D. Mortensen
企业劳动生产率和企业支付的平均工资差异很大，并且呈正相关。这些观察结果可以通过企业生产率的外生 TFP 异质性加上租金共享或通过资本密集度和劳动力投入质量的差异来合理化。本文使用丹麦匹配的雇主-雇员数据确定了这些因素在多大程度上解释了观察结果。使用工资方程中的工人固定效应作为工人能力的衡量标准，以及劳动力质量的能力和职业构成的组合，我们发现，在每个考虑的行业中，全要素生产率异质性比资本密集度和劳动力质量的差异更多地解释了观察到的劳动生产率离散性，而劳动力构成的变化比能力差异更能解释。劳动力质量和租金共享的差异对于解释企业层面的工资分散都很重要，而租金共享对于企业平均工资与劳动生产率之间的正相关关系最为重要。
Firm labor productivity and average wages paid by firms vary considerably and are positively correlated. These observations can be rationalized either by exogenous TFP heterogeneity in firm productivity coupled with rent sharing or by differences in capital intensity and in the quality of labor inputs. This paper ascertains the extent to which these factors provide an explanation of the observations using Danish matched employer-employee data. Using the worker fixed effect in a wage equation as a measure of worker ability, and a combination of ability and occupational composition for labor force quality, we find that TFP heterogeneity explains more of the observed labor productivity dispersion than differences in capital intensity and labor force quality in each of the industries considered, and that variation in labor force composition explains more than ability differences. Both differences in labor force quality and rent sharing are important in explaining firm level wage dispersion, whereas rent sharing is most important for the positive correlation between average firm wage and labor productivity.