Project Details
Projekt
Organizational Structure, Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality in Germany: an Empirical Study Using Linked Employer-Employee Data
Applicant
Professor Dr. Markus Gangl
Subject Area
Empirical Social Research
Term
from 2014 to 2017
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 256809629
The proposed research addresses the role of firms for wage inequality in the German labor market. Specifically, the project focuses on firm-level sources of skill-based wage differentials and aims to understand the contribution of relevant changes in firms behavior and organization to the rise of wage inequality in Germany since the 1990s. The project will quantify the extent to which changing wage differentials have primarily been driven by changes in worker assignment or changes in firm-level wage policies, and will seek to identify empirically relevant organization-level correlates. Furthermore, the project will evaluate the causal role of technological and organizational change, including potential interactions between both components. In particular, the proposed research will yield estimates for the effects of technology investments and firms use of non-standard contracts for skill-based wage differentials, and will also seek to estimate potential interactions with the presence of unions, corporate financial strategy and legal type of corporation. To achieve these goals, the project will use the IABs LIAB linked employer-employee dataset augmented with job task data from the BIBB-IAB Qualification Surveys, and will rely on different variants of multilevel (hierarchical linear, random coefficient) modeling as well as fixed-effects estimators in its statistical analyses.
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