Evidence on the Employer Size-Wage Premium from Worker-Establishment Matched Data
利用美国制造业工人与企业匹配数据，检验七种解释企业规模-工资溢价的理论，发现每种只能解释部分工资差异，但都无法完全解释大企业支付的显著工资溢价。
Abstract —In spite of the large and growing importance of the employer size-wage premium, previous attempts to account for this premium using observable worker or employer characteristic s have had limited success. The problem is that, while most theoretical explanation s for the size-wage premium are based on the matching of employers and employees, previous empirical work has relied on either worker surveys with little information about the employer, or establishmen t surveys with little information about the workers. In contrast, this study uses the newly created Worker-Establishment Characteristic Database, which contains linked employeremployee data for a large sample of U.S. manufacturing workers and establishments, to examine seven explanation s for the employer size-wage premium. A number of the explanation s can account for some of the observed cross-sectiona l variation in worker wages. However, none of the explanations can fully account for the employer size-wage premium. In the end there remains a large, signi � cant, and unexplained premium paid to workers of large employers. I.