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| Titre : | High wage workers and high wage peers (2017) |
| Auteurs : | Michèle Battisti |
| Type de document : | Article : texte imprimé |
| Dans : | Labour economics (vol. 46, June 2017) |
| Article en page(s) : | pp. 47-63 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
Thésaurus CEREQ SALAIRE ; INEGALITE SALARIALE ; POLITIQUE SALARIALE D'ENTREPRISE ; ECONOMETRIE ; ITALIE |
| Résumé : | This paper investigates the effect of coworker characteristics on wages, measured by the average person effect of coworkers in a wage regression. The effect of interest is identified from within-firm changes in workforce composition, controlling for person effects, firm effects, and sector-specific time trends. My estimates are based on a linked employer employee dataset for the population of workers and firms of the Italian region of Veneto for years 1982-2001. I find that a 0.1 increase in the average labour market value of coworkers’ skills (which is around one within-person standard deviation) is associated with a 3.6 percent wage premium. I also find that a sizeable share of the wage variation previously explained by unobserved individual and firm heterogeneity may be due to variation in coworker skills. An event-type study, a Placebo exercise and a series of heterogeneity analyses lend credibility to the baseline results. I also evaluate the role of the spillover effects for wage differentials between specific groups of workers. I find that around 12 percent of the gender wage gap and 10 to 16 percent of the immigrant wage gap can be explained by differences in coworker characteristics. (Source : revue) |
| Document Céreq : | Non |
| En ligne : | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927537117300921 |
