Organizational Structure, Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality in Germany: an Empirical Study Using Linked Employer-Employee Data

拟议的研究解决了德国劳动力市场中企业对工资不平等的作用。具体而言，该项目侧重于基于技能的工资差异的企业层面来源，旨在了解自20世纪90年代以来德国企业行为和组织的相关变化对工资不平等加剧的贡献。该项目将量化不断变化的工资差异主要是由工人分配的变化或公司一级工资政策的变化所驱动的程度，并将寻求确定经验上相关的组织一级相关性。此外，该项目将评估技术和组织变化的因果作用，包括这两个组成部分之间潜在的相互作用。特别是，拟议的研究将对技术投资和公司使用非标准合同对基于技能的工资差异的影响进行估计，并将寻求估计与工会、公司财务战略和公司法律类型存在的潜在相互作用。为了实现这些目标，该项目将使用iab - LIAB关联的雇主-雇员数据集，并增加来自BIBB-IAB资格调查的工作任务数据，并将在其统计分析中依赖不同变体的多层（分层线性、随机系数）建模以及固定效应估计器。

The proposed research addresses the role of firms for wage inequality in the German labor market. Specifically, the project focuses on firm-level sources of skill-based wage differentials and aims to understand the contribution of relevant changes in firms behavior and organization to the rise of wage inequality in Germany since the 1990s. The project will quantify the extent to which changing wage differentials have primarily been driven by changes in worker assignment or changes in firm-level wage policies, and will seek to identify empirically relevant organization-level correlates. Furthermore, the project will evaluate the causal role of technological and organizational change, including potential interactions between both components. In particular, the proposed research will yield estimates for the effects of technology investments and firms use of non-standard contracts for skill-based wage differentials, and will also seek to estimate potential interactions with the presence of unions, corporate financial strategy and legal type of corporation. To achieve these goals, the project will use the IABs LIAB linked employer-employee dataset augmented with job task data from the BIBB-IAB Qualification Surveys, and will rely on different variants of multilevel (hierarchical linear, random coefficient) modeling as well as fixed-effects estimators in its statistical analyses.