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Flexible work systems and the structure of wages : evidence from matched employer-employee data
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - 2001 - revised: July 2002
(HPWOs) on wages. This paper makes use of a new employer-employee-linked panel data set for Germany to examine the effects of … adopting HPWOs on wages as well as on the wage structure within firms. The empirical results suggest that, depending on the … particular practice, flexible workplace systems benefit employees through higher wages. HPWOs further increase within firm wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403441
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Flexible Work Systems and the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
(HPWOs) on wages. This paper makes use of a new employer-employee-linked panel data set for Germany to examine the effects of … adopting HPWOs on wages as well as on the wage structure within firms. The empirical results suggest that, depending on the … particular practice, flexible workplace systems benefit employees through higher wages. HPWOs further increase within firm wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703327
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Earnings inequality and the global division of labor : evidence from the executive labor market
Schymik, Jan - 2017
Many industrialized economies have seen a rapid rise in top income inequality and in the globalization of production since the 1980s. In this paper I propose an open economy model of executive pay to study how offshoring affects the pay level and incentives of top earners. The model introduces a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657028
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The Impact of China's Millennium Labor Restructuring Program on Firm Performance and Employee Earnings
Dong, Xiao-Yuan - 2009
effects of labor downsizing on firms' technical efficiency, financial performance, and employee wages. We find that downsizing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012721131
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Technology, Trade, and Wages
Adams, James D. - 1997
technology, and trade on U.S. wages. A standard model of general equilibrium is presented that shows each effect tends to be … technology has the same rather than opposite effect on wages at both skill levels; (ii), a rise in the foreign share in world … innovation or U.S. patents decreases U.S. wages; (iii), an increase in the U.S. share in world innovation or U.S. patents raises …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076739
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Management Compensation and Firm-Level Income Inequality
Frederiksen, Anders; Poulsen, Odile M. - 2021
In recent decades, most developed countries have experienced a simultaneous increase in income inequality and management compensation. In this paper, we study the relation between management compensation and firm-level income dynamics in a general equilibrium model. Empirical estimation, of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324993
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Revisiting the German Wage Structure
Dustmann, Christian; Ludsteck, Johannes; Schönberg, Uta - 2021
This paper challenges the view that the wage structure in West Germany has remained stable throughout the 80s and 90s. Based on a 2% sample of social security records, we show that wage inequality has increased in the 1980s, but only at the top of the distribution. In the early 1990s, wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317166
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Inshoring: The geographic fragmentation of production and inequality
Liao, Wen-Chi - In: Journal of Urban Economics 72 (2012) 1, pp. 1-16
The advent of information technology facilitates the geographic separation of production tasks, which is referred to as offshoring in international contexts and inshoring in domestic contexts. Although the literature on offshoring has flourished, the research regarding inshoring is limited. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010574529
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Innovation and sectoral employment: A trade-off between compensation mechanisms
Ebersberger, Bernd; Pyka, Andreas - 1999
The question whether technological progress displaces employment or whether technological advance is beneficial for the level of employment has been in the core of economic dispute for over two centuries. The beneficial might be achieved by several compensation mechanisms within the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291721
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Innovation and Sectoral Employment: A Trade-Off between Compensation Mechanisms
Ebersberger, Bernd; Pyka, Andreas - Institut für Volkswirschaftlehre, Fakultät für … - 2000
The question whether technological progress displaces employment or whether technological advance is beneficial for the level of employment has been in the core of economic dispute for over two centuries. The beneficial might be achieved by several compensation mechanisms within the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005570405