The Impact of Hierarchies on Wages

Kieron Meagher

Working Papers from New South Wales - School of Economics

Abstract: The failure of human capital theory to explain firm related effects on wages, new empirical approaches to internal labor markets, and new work on careers have all led to a recent surge in interest in how firm internal structure, and the jobs within firms, help determine wages. The least developped approach to this new area is the theory of hierarchies, which springs originally from industrial organization and the theory of the firm. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the theoretical and empirical importance of management hierarchies.

Keywords: HUMAN CAPITAL; WAGES; SOCIAL STRUCTURE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D20 J21 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 1998
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