Pay in M?ori-led firms

Richard Fabling and David Maré

No 24_05, Working Papers from Motu Economic and Public Policy Research

Abstract: This study examines whether working in a M?ori-led firm contributes to the earnings of M?ori employees. It uses administrative data for 2005-2020 to identify M?ori-led firms, based on the ethnicity and descent of working proprietors, and using an improved method of measuring descent. Almost 8% of M?ori employees work in M?ori-led firms. Controlling for firm and worker characteristics, we find that M?ori-led firms have slightly lower than average multi-factor productivity and wage levels. The wage effects for M?ori of working in a M?ori-led firm are small but there is some evidence to suggest that moving between M?ori-led firms contributes to wage growth for w?hine M?ori, and that in M?ori-led firms there is stronger pass-through of firm performance to earnings levels for t?ne M?ori.

Keywords: earnings; productivity; M?ori; ethnicity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J30 J42 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 49 pages
Date: 2024-12
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