Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21281 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 605
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The wage policy of a German and a U.S. firm is comparatively analysed with a focus on the relation between wages and hierarchies. While prior studies examine only one particular firm, in this paper two plants of the same owners with similar production processes in different institutional environments are inspected. Convex wage profiles over the hierarchy levels of both plants are found. The U.S. plant shows considerably higher intensity of intra-firm competition in terms of higher intra-level wage inequality and yearly promotion rate. In contrast, wages are more distinctly attached to hierarchy levels in the German firm, as wage regressions show. The results are discussed in comparison to prior studies.
Subjects: 
hierarchies
intra-firm wages
personnel records
JEL: 
M12
J31
M52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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