) Size-class differences in wage dispersion often mask even sharper differences in the dispersion of wages generated by … wages worker heterogeneity tends to rise with establishment size production workers are much more homogenous in the union … smaller establishments. 5) The variance in mean wages across establishments accounts for 59% of total variance. Within …

We consider six explanations for the positive relationship between employer size and wages -- large employers (1) hire … higher quality workers; (2) offer inferior working conditions; (3) make more use of high wages to forestall unionization; (4 …) have more ability to pay high wages; (5) face smaller pools of applicants relative to vacancies; (6) are less able to …

Along with house rents, wages have frequently been described as the "stickiest" prices in the economy, rarely adjusted … more than once a year. Because of this stickiness (which arises from the transactions costs involved in changing wages), a … distinction exists between the adjustment of wages and the size of that adjustment. This distinction has important implications …

financially constrained offer an increasing wage profile: They pay lower wages today in exchange of higher wages once they become … unconstrained and operate at a larger scale. In equilibrium, constrained firms are on average smaller and pay lower wages. In this … way the model generates a positive relation between firm size and wages. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey …