The Extent of Rent Sharing along the Wage Distribution

Alessia Matano and Paolo Naticchioni

No 10570, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: The relation between rent sharing and wages has generally been evaluated on average wages. This paper uses a unique employer-employee panel database to investigate the extent of rent sharing along the wage distribution in Italy. We apply quantile regression techniques and control for national level bargaining, unobserved worker and firm heterogeneity and endogeneity. Our findings show that the extent of rent-sharing decreases along the wage distribution, suggesting that unskilled workers benefit most from firms' rents. By applying quantile regressions by occupational categories, we show that the decreasing pattern is mainly driven by blue collar workers, while estimates for white collars are higher and basically constant along the wage distribution. We also provide evidence that unions might represent one of the driver of our findings.

Keywords: IV quantile regressions; quantile regressions; wage distribution; rent sharing; quantile fixed effects regressions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 J31 J41 L25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2017-02
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Published - published in: British Journal of Industrial Relation, 2017, 55 (4), 751-777

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