Examining he Employer-Size wage Premium in the Manufacturing, Retail Trade, and service Industries Using Employer-Employee Matched Data

摘要

Economists have long sought to understand why large employers pay higher wage than small employers. Despite decades of study and analysis, researchers have been unsuc- cessful in fully accounting for the employer- size wage premium. One problem has been insufficient data. Most empirical efforts toe x- amine the size-related wage premium rely on worker-level data that contain little informa- tion about a worker's employer, or firm-level data that lack information on the characteris- tics of a firm's workforce.