In many economies, studies have found large wage differentials not accounted for by workforce characteristics, collective bargaining, or market power. Researchers attribute these differentials to either unobserved worker quality or pay incentives designed to elicit worker effort. This article finds empirical support for an alternative explanation: These wage differentials result from firms' technology-generating activities. Using firm-level data from...
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1997/01/01
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日志文章
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2013/05/14
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Technology and firm size wage differentials in Colombia, Mexico, and Taiwan (China)
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unskilled worker