High wage workers and high wage peers.

Autor/in	Battisti, Michele
Titel	High wage workers and high wage peers. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Hochlohnarbeitskräfte und Hochlohnkollegen.
Quelle	In: Labour economics, (2017) 46, S. 47-63 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0927-5371
DOI	10.1016/j.labeco.2017.02.002
Schlagwörter	Frau; Bildungsertrag; Peer Group; Einkommensunterschied; Einkommenseffekt; Erwerbstätigkeit; Lohnhöhe; Lohnstruktur; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit; Qualifikationsstruktur; Regionaler Arbeitsmarkt; Mitarbeiter; Italien
Abstract	"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." (Author's abstract, © 2017 Elsevier).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2018/2