Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33182 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1888
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
It turns out that the employer-size effect on individual wages dwindles away once one control for the number of workers of the same skill-group (educational type) as the observed individual within the establishment. The skill-group size effect on wages is substantial. The main results, a dwindling employer size effect and a significant group size effect, remain after controlling for both individual and establishment specific heterogeneity. This observation rejects most of the proposed explanations for the employer-size effect, while it lends considerable support for the notion that there are frictions in the labor market and that each establishment faces an upward sloping supply curve for each type of labor.
Subjects: 
wage differentials
size wage effect
JEL: 
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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