Arbeitspapier
Do newly founded firms pay lower wages? First evidence from Germany
Using a linked employer-employee data set for Germany, this paper analyses wage setting in a cohort of newly founded and other establishments from 1997 to 2001. While theory provides alternative explanations for higher or lower wages in newly founded firms, we show empirically that start-ups tend to pay lower wages, ceteris paribus. On average, wages in newly founded establishments are 8 percent lower than in similar incumbent firms. This negative wage differential is substantially smaller in eastern than in western Germany. The wage differential is shown to decline over time as the newly founded firms become more mature.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Diskussionspapiere ; No. 28
Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Firm Behavior: Theory
Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General
Firm Behavior: Theory
Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General
Thema
Wages
newly founded firms
linked employer-employee data
Germany
Unternehmensgründung
Lohn
Lohnstruktur
Unternehmensentwicklung
Schätzung
Deutschland
newly founded firms
linked employer-employee data
Germany
Unternehmensgründung
Lohn
Lohnstruktur
Unternehmensentwicklung
Schätzung
Deutschland
Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Schnabel, Claus
Kohaut, Susanne
Brixy, Udo
Kohaut, Susanne
Brixy, Udo
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Lehrstuhl für Arbeitsmarkt- und Regionalpolitik
(wo)
Nürnberg
(wann)
2004
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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12.07.2024, 13:23 MESZ
Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Schnabel, Claus
- Kohaut, Susanne
- Brixy, Udo
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Lehrstuhl für Arbeitsmarkt- und Regionalpolitik
Entstanden
- 2004
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