工时约束与企业间工资差异

Journal of Human Resources · 2023 · [{"name": "Claudio Labanca", "affiliation": ["Monash University"]}, {"name": "Dario Pozzoli", "affiliation": ["Copenhagen Business School"]}]

中文摘要

尽管企业层面的工作时长约束被视为企业工资的重要决定因素，但支持这一观点的直接证据很少。本文使用丹麦雇主-雇员匹配数据中的工作时长信息来度量工作时长约束，并考察这些约束如何与企业工资相关。我们表明，约束更严格的企业支付更高的企业特定工资，且这些工资溢价集中在生产率更高的企业中。基于这些发现，我们讨论了一个框架：工作时长约束的动因在于更具协作性的生产过程所带来的生产率收益，这使得生产率更高的企业约束工作时长，并支付补偿性工资差异。

Abstract

<h3>Abstract</h3> Although constraints on hours worked at the firm-level are viewed as an important determinant of firm wages, little direct evidence exists to support this view. In this paper, we use linked employer-employee data on hours worked in Denmark to measure hours constraints and to investigate how these constraints relate to firm wages. We show that firms with stricter constraints pay higher firm-specific wages and that these premiums are concentrated in more productive firms. Starting from these findings we discuss a framework in which hours constraints are motivated by the productivity gains derived from having a more cooperative production process, leading more productive firms to constrain hours and to pay compensating wage differentials.