Working paper
The butcher, the brewer, or the baker: The role of occupations in explaining wage inequality
- Abstract:
-
Google does not pay its canteen chefs the same premium as it does its software engineers; there is heterogeneity in pay premia within a firm. To study the implications of this observation, we estimate a two-way, worker-job, fixed effect model that builds upon the canonical model by Abowd et al. (1999) by allowing for within-firm heterogeneity. Estimating our model on UK administrative data, we find that even if workers, and firms, were identical, 25% of current log-wage variance would remain,...
Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
Actions
Authors
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- University of Oxford Publisher's website
- Series:
- Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series
- Article number:
- 939
- Publication date:
- 2021-06-15
- ISSN:
-
1471-0498
- Paper number:
- 939
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
-
1182616
- Local pid:
- pubs:1182616
- Deposit date:
- 2021-06-18
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Hou and Milsom
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © 2021, The Authors.
Metrics
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record