Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/250675 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15014
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study the nature of firm pay dynamics. To this end, we propose a statistical model that extends the seminal framework by Abowd, Kramarz and Margolis (1999) to allow for idiosyncratically time-varying firm pay policies. We estimate the model using linked employer-employee data for Sweden from 1985 to 2016. By drawing on detailed firm financials data, we show that firms that become more productive and accumulate capital raise pay, whereas firms lower pay as they add workers. A secular increase in firm-year pay dispersion in Sweden since 1985 is accounted for by greater persistence of firm pay among incumbent firms as well as greater dispersion in firm pay among entrant firms, as opposed to more volatile firm pay.
Subjects: 
earnings inequality
worker and firm heterogeneity
firm dynamics
linked employer-employee data
two-way fixed effects model
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JEL: 
J31
D22
D31
E24
M13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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