The Role of Establishments and the Concentration of Occupations in Wage Inequality

Elizabeth Handwerker and James Spletzer

No 9294, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper uses the microdata of the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) Survey to assess the contribution of occupational concentration to wage inequality between establishments and its growth over time. We show that occupational concentration plays an important role in wage determination for workers, in a wide variety of occupations, and can explain some establishment-level wage variation. Occupational concentration is increasing during the 2000-2011 time period, although much of this change is explained by other observable establishment characteristics. Overall, occupational concentration can help explain a small amount of wage inequality growth between establishments during this time period.

Keywords: occupational concentration; establishments; wage inequality; employers; employer-employee microdata (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 D31 J31 L11 M12 M50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2015-08
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