Government intervention, efficiency wages, and the employer size wage effect in Zimbabwe

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Velenchik, AD
• 署名单位: Wellesley College
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3878(97)00019-9
• 发表日期: 1997
• 页码: 305-338
• 关键词: employer size; efficiency wages; Zimbabwe

摘要

This paper uses matched employer-employee data from a survey of 201 manufacturing firms and 1609 of their workers conducted in Zimbabwe in the summer of 1933, The results indicate that there is a substantial premium associated with employment in larger firms, and that this premium cannot be explained by differences in worker quality and job characteristics, nor is it eliminated by controlling for unionization, minimum wages or other forms of government intervention, The size premium is much larger for white collar than for blue collar workers. These differentials are also found to be substantially larger than those estimated for other developed and developing countries. The analysis uses the data about firm characteristics to explore a number of efficiency wage-based explanations of the size differential, and finds results which are consistent with, but not conclusive proof of, hiring, turnover, and morale based notions of efficiency wages. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.