Firm-Wide Versus Establishment-Specific Labor-Market Practices
Posted: 25 Jan 2005
Abstract
We construct a novel data set matching occupational data from separate establishments to the establishments' corporate parents in order to study labor market links across establishments within diverse firms. We find substantial wage components common to all establishments within firms, even after netting out industry and occupation effects. However, employment changes are localized to establishments. The data suggest that internal labor markets of multi-establishment firms are linked throughout their entire organizations, but that establishment-level demand shocks do not permeate throughout the firm.
JEL Classification: D23, J33, J41
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Kaplan, David S. and Pierce, Brooks, Firm-Wide Versus Establishment-Specific Labor-Market Practices. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=653821
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