A note on the calculation of firm-specific and skill-specific labor costs from firm-Ievel data

Ulrich Kaiser (Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim and Center for Finance and Econometrics at the University of Konstanz)

Virtually all empirical firm-level studies on the demand for labor do not include labor cost in the econometric specification. This is due to the fact that business and innovation survey data usually lack information on labor cost. This paper shows how reliable skill-specific and firm-specific labor cost can be calculated from firm-level data on the basis of information on total labor cost and firms' skill mix only. The simple method proposed here is applied to German innovation survey data.

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Year of publication:	January 2000
Authors:	Kaiser, Ulrich
Publisher:	Mannheim : ZEW
Subject:	labor cost \| Kernel density estimation \| Arbeitskosten \| Labour costs \| Unternehmen \| Enterprise \| Qualifikation \| Occupational qualification \| Humankapital \| Human capital \| Dekompositionsverfahren \| Decomposition method \| Schätzung \| Estimation \| Theorie \| Theory \| Deutschland \| Germany \| Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 9 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	ZEW discussion papers. - Mannheim : ZEW, ZDB-ID 2125128-9. - Vol. no. 00-08
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/130211 [Handle]
Classification:	J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs ; C14 - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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