Wage Inequality’s Decreasing Effect on Enterprise Operating Revenues

Jarle Aarstad () and Olav Andreas Kvitastein
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Jarle Aarstad: The Mohn Centre for Innovation and Regional Development, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, P.O. Box 7030, NO-5020 Bergen, Norway
Olav Andreas Kvitastein: The Mohn Centre for Innovation and Regional Development, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, P.O. Box 7030, NO-5020 Bergen, Norway

Economies, 2023, vol. 11, issue 7, 1-8

Abstract: This study assesses whether wage inequality affects enterprises’ operating revenues and whether operating revenues reversely affect wage inequality. To study our research questions, we analyze panel data from Norway and find that wage inequality decreases operating revenues. I.e., increasing high earners’ wages relative to those earning low ones—or decreasing low earners’ wages relative to those earning high ones—decreases operating revenues. It implies that wage inequality is detrimental to enterprise performance. Reversely, decreasing operating revenues increases wage inequality. I.e., low earners’ wages are reduced relatively more than those earning high ones when enterprise revenues decrease. Increasing operating revenues, on the other hand, does not decrease wage inequality.

Keywords: dynamic unconditional quasi-maximum likelihood panel regression; dynamic GMM panel regression; instrumental variables (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E F I J O Q (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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