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Intra‐firm Wage Dispersion and Firm Performance
Author(s) -
WinterEbmer Rudolf,
Zweimüller Josef
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
kyklos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1467-6435
pISSN - 0023-5962
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6435.1999.tb00233.x
Subject(s) - wage , economic history , political science , economics , management , art history , art , law
Personnel economics has put forward conflicting arguments concerning the impact ofincreased wage dispersion within a firm on the productivity of its workers. Besides givingmore incentives, bigger wage differentials might also give rise to less co-operation and morepoliticking amongst workers resulting in worse outcomes. We try to shed light on these issuesusing panel data for Austrian firms. As indicators for firm performance we use standardisedwages. For white-collar wages the following...