Wages, Profits, and Capital Intensity: Evidence from Matched Worker‐Firm Data

Araï, Mahmood

doi:10.1086/374960

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“…In fact, wage premia and human capital differences between local-and national-market firms are as important as wage premia and human capital differences between exporters and non-exporters. Overall, market-remoteness wage premia are quantitatively very 23 There is also some empirical evidence on a positive relationship between the capital/labor ratio and average wages (see Arai (2003)). In our model, this relationship depends on the technological assumptions about the relationship between quality and physical capital.…”

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Firms’ main market, human capital, and wages

Alcalá

Hernández

2010

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The literature on the exporter wage premium has focused on an exporter/non-exporter dichotomy. Instead, this paper provides first evidence that there is a more continuous destination-market effect. Using Spanish data, we estimate wage premia for establishments selling to the national, European Union, and rest of the world markets (with respect to wages in local-market establishments). Controlling for worker and establishment characteristics, output-market wage premia are increasing in market remoteness and employee education. Establishment human capital is also increasing in output-market remoteness. The paper builds a theoretical model that provides a potential explanation for these empirical results, which is also consistent with the recent evidence on the positive relationship between output-market remoteness and quality of exports.

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Firms’ main market, human capital, and wages

Alcalá

Hernández

2010

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“…These models posit that exogenous changes in revenues/profits change wages in the same direction ðsee, e.g., Margolis and Salvanes 2001;Arai 2003;Martins 2009;Dobbelaere and Mairesse 2010;Card, Heining, and Kline 2013Þ. Following this logic, we examine the link between wages and revenues using the following model:…”

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It’s Where You Work: Increases in the Dispersion of Earnings across Establishments and Individuals in the United States

Barth

Bryson

Davis

et al. 2016

Journal of Labor Economics

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“…Unfortunately, since our data do not include any plant level productivity measures it is not possible to shed new light on this hypothesis. Holmlund and Zetterberg (1991) exploit industry data whereas firm data are used by Arai (2003), Forslund (1994), and Forslund and Lindh (2004).…”

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Wage dispersion between and within plants: Sweden 1985-2000

Skans¹,

Edin²,

Holmlund³

2007

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Wages, Profits, and Capital Intensity: Evidence from Matched Worker‐Firm Data

Cited by 176 publications

References 28 publications

Firms’ main market, human capital, and wages

Firms’ main market, human capital, and wages

It’s Where You Work: Increases in the Dispersion of Earnings across Establishments and Individuals in the United States

Wage dispersion between and within plants: Sweden 1985-2000

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