Do Newly Founded Firms Pay Lower Wages? First Evidence from Germany

Udo Brixy (), Susanne Kohaut () and Claus Schnabel

Small Business Economics, 2007, vol. 29, issue 1, 171 pages

Abstract: Using a linked employer–employee data set for Germany, this paper analyses wage setting in a cohort of newly founded and other establishments from 1997 to 2001. While theory provides alternative explanations for higher or lower wages in newly founded firms, we show empirically that start-ups tend to pay lower wages, ceteris paribus. On average, wages in newly founded establishments are 8% lower than in similar incumbent firms. This negative wage differential is substantially smaller in eastern than in western Germany. The wage differential is shown to decline over time as the newly founded firms become more mature. Copyright Springer 2007

Keywords: Wages; newly founded firms; linked employer-employee data; D21; J30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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