Does it matter where you work? Employer characteristics and the wage growth of low-wage workers and higher-wage workers

Arbeitspapier

Using rich German linked employer-employee data and endogenous switching regression models, I show that large firms and firms with a high export share or a low proportion of fixed-term workers provide higher wage growth for low-wage workers. While having many low-paid co-workers dampens the wage growth of both lowwage workers and higher-wage workers, there are also employers who provide higher wage growth only for higher-wage workers. The results indicate a certain degree of labour market segmentation that is a) important for the wage mobility of individual workers and b) relevant in the context of polarisation and rising wage inequality.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IAB-Discussion Paper ; No. 4/2013

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General ; Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers: General
• Thema: Wage mobility ; low-wage employment ; endogenous switching regression model ; Germany

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Stephani, Jens
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB)
• (wo): Nürnberg
• (wann): 2013

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/84965
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ