Establishment Size and the Task Content of Jobs: Evidence from 46 Countries

Micole De Vera and Javier Garcia-Brazales ()
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Javier Garcia-Brazales: CEMFI

No 17319, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using a mix of household- and employer-based survey data from 46 countries, we provide novel evidence that workers in larger establishments perform more non-routine analytical tasks, even within narrowly defined occupations. Moreover, workers in larger establishments rely more on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to perform these tasks. We also document a 15% raw wage premium that workers in larger establishments enjoy relative to their counterparts in smaller establishments. A mediation analysis shows that our novel empirical facts on the task content of jobs are able to explain between 5–20% of the establishment size wage premium, a similar fraction to what can be explained by selection of workers on education, gender, and age.

Keywords: cross-country evidence; establishment size; occupations; tasks; wage differential (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J31 L25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 73 pages
Date: 2024-09
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Published - published in: Economica, 2025, 92 (366), 548-579

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