1999
DOI: 10.1111/1467-6435.00102
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Intra-Firm Wage Dispersion and Firm Performance

Abstract: Personnel economics has put forward conflicting arguments concerning the impact of increased wage dispersion within a firm on the productivity of its workers. Besides giving more incentives, bigger wage differentials might also give rise to less co-operation and more politicking amongst workers resulting in worse outcomes. We try to shed light on these issues using panel data for Austrian firms. As indicators for firm performance we use standardised wages. For white-collar wages the following picture emerges: … Show more

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“…60 % of the population is completely selfish with α i = β i = 0. This distribution is roughly consistent with the evidence on other games 8. Our analysis proceeds in two steps.…”
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confidence: 82%
“…60 % of the population is completely selfish with α i = β i = 0. This distribution is roughly consistent with the evidence on other games 8. Our analysis proceeds in two steps.…”
supporting
confidence: 82%
“…Although unconditional indices may have appeal if the analysis focuses on the effect of CEO's pay on firm performance, many theories like 'tournaments' or 'hawks and doves' refer to wage differentials between similar workers (Winter-Ebmer and Zweimüller, 1999). As a result, a conditional indicator appears more appropriate for our study.…”
Section: Methodology and Indicatorsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Another strand of the empirical literature offers evidence in favour of the 'tournament' theory, developed by Lazear and Rosen (1981). Winter-Ebmer and Zweimüller (1999), for instance, investigate the impact of intra-firm wage dispersion on firm performance using panel data covering the whole Austrian workforce for the period 1975-91. 13 They measure within-firm wage inequality by the standard errors of firm-level wage equations.…”
Section: Empirical Findingsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…z.B. : Beaumont, Harris 2003;Cowherd, Levine 1992;Heyman 2002;Heyman 2005;Lallemand et al 2004 ;Lallemand et al 2007b;Levine 1991;Winter-Ebmer, Zweimüller 1999). Hier steht die Lohnstreuung als erklärende Variable auf der rechten Seite der Regressionsgleichung.…”
Section: Fairness Und Anreizeunclassified