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Microdata Evidence on Rent-Sharing
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Abstract We examine the effect of firm profits on wages for individual workers while focusing on the empirical complications associated with estimating the extent of rent-sharing. Controlling for worker and firm fixed-effects and using several instruments to deal with the endogeneity of profits, we report re... mehr
We examine the effect of firm profits on wages for individual workers while focusing on the empirical complications associated with estimating the extent of rent-sharing. Controlling for worker and firm fixed-effects and using several instruments to deal with the endogeneity of profits, we report results indicating that OLS-estimates strongly underestimate the effects of profits on wages. Moreover, the effect of profits on wages are estimated separately for firms with increasing and decreasing profits within a given time period. We find a positive and stable effect only in firms with increasing profits. This is in line with the idea that falling profits do not lead to wage cuts while increasing profits imply higher wages.... weniger
Klassifikation
Volkswirtschaftstheorie
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2009
Seitenangabe
S. 2965-2976
Zeitschriftentitel
Applied Economics, 41 (2009) 23
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840701721620
ISSN
1466-4283
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)