全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Firming Up Inequality

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w21199
来源ID	Working Paper 21199
	Firming Up Inequality
	Jae Song; David J. Price; Fatih Guvenen; Nicholas Bloom; Till von Wachter
发表日期	2015-05-26
出版年	2015
语种	英语
摘要	Earnings inequality in the United States has increased rapidly over the last three decades, but little is known about the role of firms in this trend. For example, how much of the rise in earnings inequality can be attributed to rising dispersion between firms in the average wages they pay, and how much is due to rising wage dispersion among workers within firms? Similarly, how did rising inequality affect the wage earnings of different types of workers working for the same employer—men vs. women, young vs. old, new hires vs. senior employees, and so on? To address questions like these, we begin by constructing a matched employer-employee data set for the United States using administrative records. Covering all U.S. firms between 1978 to 2012, we show that virtually all of the rise in earnings dispersion between workers is accounted for by increasing dispersion in average wages paid by the employers of these individuals. In contrast, pay differences within employers have remained virtually unchanged, a finding that is robust across industries, geographical regions, and firm size groups. Furthermore, the wage gap between the most highly paid employees within these firms (CEOs and high level executives) and the average employee has increased only by a small amount, refuting oft-made claims that such widening gaps account for a large fraction of rising inequality in the population.
主题	Macroeconomics ; Consumption and Investment ; Labor Economics ; Labor Compensation ; Industrial Organization ; Firm Behavior
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w21199
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578873
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jae Song,David J. Price,Fatih Guvenen,et al. Firming Up Inequality. 2015.