Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21212 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 353
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
A growing literature is concerned with the effects of flexible workplace systems or High Performance Work Organizations (HPWOs) on wages. This paper makes use of a new employer-employee-linked panel data set for Germany to examine the effects of adopting HPWOs on wages as well as on the wage structure within firms. The empirical results suggest that, depending on the particular practice, flexible workplace systems benefit employees through higher wages. HPWOs further increase within firm wage inequality through a relative increase in the wages at the upper parts of an establishment?s wage distribution.
Subjects: 
organizational change
wages
linked-employer-employee data set
within-firm inequality
JEL: 
O3
J3
L2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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