Dispersion in wage premiums and firm performance

Pedro Martins

Economics Letters, 2008, vol. 101, issue 1, 63-65

Abstract: Using matched employer-employee panel data, we estimate measures of pay dispersion per firm-year that take into account both firm and worker unobserved heterogeneity. Unlike research that controls only for differences in observables, we find that within-firm pay inequality is significantly associated to lower firm performance.

Keywords: Wage; policies; Worker; heterogeneity; Fairness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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