Dynamics of Productivity and Cost of Labor in Italian Manufacturing Firms
Quaderni DSE Working Paper N° 865
20 Pages Posted: 2 Feb 2013
Date Written: February 1, 2013
Abstract
This paper studies the impact of size on labor cost and productivity for Italian manufacturing firms. The distributions of both labor cost and productivity display a wide support, even when disaggregated by sector of industrial activity. Further, both labor cost and productivity, when considered alone, are growing with the size of the firm. We investigate this relationship on a new set of data and we are able to show that once accounted for productivity differences among firms, size still retains a positive effect on cost of labor in most of the sectors considered.
Keywords: size-wage effect, labor productivity
JEL Classification: D21, J31, L11, L60
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Do you have negative results from your research you’d like to share?
Recommended Papers
-
Firm Size Wage Differentials in Switzerland: Evidence from Job Changers
-
Wages and the Bargaining Regime Under Multi-Level Bargaining: Belgium, Denmark and Spain
By Robert Plasman, Michael Rusinek, ...
-
Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from European Countries
By Brenda Gannon, Robert Plasman, ...
-
The Establishment-Size Wage Premium: Evidence from European Countries
By Thierry Lallemand, Robert Plasman, ...
-
Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and Unobserved Ability: Siblings Evidence from Five Countries
By Anders Bjorklund, Bernt Bratsberg, ...
-
Wage Distributions by Bargaining Regime: Linked Employer-Employee Data Evidence from Germany
By Karsten Kohn and Alexander Lembcke