Arbeitspapier
Firms' Wage Structures, Workers' Fairness Perceptions, Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intentions: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
The paper uses novel data for Germany linking worker and establishment surveys with administrative social security data for all workers in the surveyed establishments. From these data, four variables are generated that describe a firm's wage structure and the positions of workers within it: (a) workers' own absolute wages, (b) workers' conditional internal reference wages within firms, (c) the conditional wage dispersion in firms, and (d) workers' conditional external reference wages across firms. Three empirical contributions are made: (1) the impact of firms' wage structures on workers' perceived wage fairness as an important organizational justice variable, (2) the impact of firms' wage structures on workers' job satisfaction and turnover intentions, and (3) the contribution of the fairness considerations on the overall effects of the wage structure variables on workers' job satisfaction and turnover intentions. The findings suggest that equity and social status considerations as well as altruistic preferences towards co-workers and inequality aversion are important, whereas the evidence for signal considerations is limited.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 12821
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
General Welfare; Well-Being
Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
Personnel Economics: Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
- Subject
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income comparison
inequality
fairness
job satisfaction
turnover
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Mohrenweiser, Jens
Pfeifer, Christian
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
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2019
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Mohrenweiser, Jens
- Pfeifer, Christian
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2019
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