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The Employer Size-Wage Effect / Charles Brown, James L. Medoff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Charles.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w2870.
- NBER working paper series no. w2870
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1989.
- Summary:
- We consider six explanations for the positive relationship between employer size and wages -- large employers (1) hire higher quality workers; (2) offer inferior working conditions; (3) make more use of high wages to forestall unionization; (4) have more ability to pay high wages; (5) face smaller pools of applicants relative to vacancies; (6) are less able to monitor their workers. We find some support for the first of these, but there remains a significant wage premium for those working for large employers.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- March 1989.
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