Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/51581
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5719
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study how workers' wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms' labor productivity. Using unique data with highly reliable firm-level output prices and quantities in the manufacturing sector in Sweden, we are able to derive measures of physical (as opposed to revenue) TFP to instrument labor productivity in the wage equations. We find that the reaction of wages to sectoral labor productivity is almost three times larger than the response to pure idiosyncratic (firm-level) shocks, a result which crucially hinges on the use of physical TFP as an instrument. These results are all robust to a number of empirical specifications, including models accounting for selection on both the demand and supply side through worker-firm (match) fixed effects. Further results suggest that technological progress at the firm level has negligible effects on the firm-level composition of employees.
Subjects: 
matched employer-employee data
sorting
wage
labor productivity
TFP
JEL: 
J31
J23
J33
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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