Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Working Paper Series,
Trade Union Institute for Economic Research
No 198: Microdata Evidence on Rent-Sharing
Mahmood Arai () and Fredrik Heyman
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Mahmood Arai: Department of Economics, Stockholm University, Postal: and, FIEF, Wallingatan 38, SE-111 24 Stockholm, Sweden
Fredrik Heyman: Trade Union Institute for Economic Research, Postal: FIEF, Wallingatan 38, SE-111 24 Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract: We examine the effect of firm profits on wages for individual workers while focusing on the empirical complications associated with estimating the extent of rent-sharing. Controlling for worker and firm fixed-effects and using several instruments to deal with the endogeneity of profits, we report results indicating that OLS-estimates strongly underestimate the effects of profits on wages. Moreover, the effect of profits on wages are estimated separately for firms with increasing and decreasing profits within a given time period. We find a positive and stable effect only in firms with increasing profits. This is in line with the idea that falling profits do not lead to wage cuts while increasing profits imply higher wages.
Keywords: Rent-sharing; Matched employer- employee data
27 pages, December 15, 2004
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