The impact of wage dispersion on labor productivity: evidence from Finnish workers

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Using an extensive dataset on Finnish workers during the years 1990-2002, we analyze the relation between dispersion of wages within plant and average sales per worker. This relation is quadratic when dispersion is conditioned on workers observable characteristics. W also find positive and significant relation between unconditional dispersion of wages within plant and value added per hour worked, while we find a non-significant relation between conditional wage dispersion and value added per hours worked. Results indicate that the incentive effect of wage dispersion dominates fairness or sabotage considerations.
OriginalspråkEngelska
Titel på värdpublikationNew Analyses of Worker Well-Being
RedaktörerSolomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Antal sidor26
UtgivningsortBingley
FörlagEmerald
Utgivningsdatum2013
Sidor77-103
ISBN (tryckt)978-1-78350-056-7
StatusPublicerad - 2013
MoE-publikationstypA3 Del av bok eller annat samlingsverk

Publikationsserier

NamnResearch in Labor Economics
FörlagEmerald
Volym38
ISSN (tryckt)0147-9121

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  • 511 Nationalekonomi

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