Wages, productivity, and worker characteristics: Evidence from plant-level production functions and wage equations

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hellerstein, JK; Neumark, D; Troske, KR
• 署名单位: University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/209926
• 发表日期: 1999
• 页码: 409-446
• 关键词: profiles; earnings; DISCRIMINATION; TECHNOLOGY; DYNAMICS; demand; IMPACT

摘要

We use a unique new data set that combines data on individual workers and their employers to estimate marginal productivity differentials among different types of workers. We then compare these to estimated relative wages, leading to new evidence on productivity-based and nonproductivity-based explanations of the determination of wages. Among our findings are (1) the higher pay of prime-aged workers (aged 35-54) and older workers (aged 55+) is reflected in higher point estimates of their relative marginal products, and (2) for the most part, the lower relative earnings of women are not reflected in lower relative marginal products.