Dissecting between plant and within-plant wage dispersion: Evidence from Germany
Daniel Baumgarten,
Gabriel Felbermayr and
Sybille Lehwald
No 2144, Kiel Working Papers from Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)
Abstract:
Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we conduct a decomposition analysis based on recentered influence function (RIF) regressions to analyze the relative contributions of various plant and worker characteristics to the rise in German wage dispersion. Moreover, we separately investigate the sources of between-plant and within-plant wage dispersion. We find that industry effects and the collective bargaining regime contribute the most to rising wage inequality. In the case of collective bargaining, both the decline in collective bargaining coverage and the increase in wage dispersion among the group of covered plants have played important roles.
Keywords: Wage inequality; Decomposition; RIF-regression; Linked employer-employee data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 F16 J31 J51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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