High wage workers and high wage peers.

Autor/in	Battisti, Michele
Institution	Ifo Institut
Titel	High wage workers and high wage peers. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Hochlohnarbeitskräfte und Hochlohnkollegen.
Quelle	München (2013), 39 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Ifo working paper. 168
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Frau; Bildungsertrag; Peer Group; Einkommensunterschied; Migrationshintergrund; Einkommenseffekt; Erwerbstätigkeit; Lohnhöhe; Lohnstruktur; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Qualifikationsstruktur; Regionaler Arbeitsmarkt; Arbeitnehmer; Ausländer; Mitarbeiter; Italien
Abstract	This paper investigates the effect of co-worker characteristics on wages, measured by the average person effect of co-workers in a wage regression. The effect of interest is identified from within-firm changes in workforce composition, controlling for person effects, firm effects, and sector-specific time trends. My estimates are based on a linked employer employee dataset for the population of workers and firms of the Italian region of Veneto for years 1982-2001. I find that a 10 percent increase in the average labour market value of co-workers' skills is associated with a 3.6 percent wage premium. I also find that around one fourth of the wage variation previously explained by unobserved firm heterogeneity is actually due to variation in co-worker skills, and that between 10 and 15 percent of the immigrant wage gap can be explained by differences in co-worker characteristics. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2014/1