Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/305761 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17319
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using a mix of household- and employer-based survey data from 46 countries, we provide novel evidence that workers in larger establishments perform more non-routine analytical tasks, even within narrowly defined occupations. Moreover, workers in larger establishments rely more on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to perform these tasks. We also document a 15% raw wage premium that workers in larger establishments enjoy relative to their counterparts in smaller establishments. A mediation analysis shows that our novel empirical facts on the task content of jobs are able to explain between 5–20% of the establishment size wage premium, a similar fraction to what can be explained by selection of workers on education, gender, and age.
Subjects: 
tasks
occupations
establishment size
cross-country evidence
wage differential
JEL: 
J24
J31
L25
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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