Firm-Size Wage Gaps, Job Responsibility, and Hierarchical Matching

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Fox, Jeremy T.
• 署名单位: University of Chicago
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/597428
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 83-126
• 关键词: employer-size; COMPENSATION; ORGANIZATION; INEQUALITY; workers

摘要

I present the fact that wage gaps due to firm size increase with job responsibility. I use Swedish data to determine whether wage gaps increase with a direct measure of job responsibility, to compare the age patterns of the wage gaps for blue- and white-collar workers, and to compare wages by job responsibility and spans of control. With U. S. data, I compare supervisory to nonsupervisory occupations and find that wage gaps increase with job responsibility for most occupational ladders. This fact is consistent with hierarchical matching models in which the larger number of subordinates amplifies managerial talent.