It’s Where You Work: Increases in the Dispersion of Earnings across Establishments and Individuals in the United States

By Erling Barth, Alex Bryson, James C. Davis, Richard B. Freeman. Journal of Labor Economics, 2016

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Brazil (2017, methodology): “Using versions of the AKM framework or similar decompositions to study the dynamics of earnings inequality over time, (Card et al., 2013; Alvarez et al., 2016; Barth et al., 2016; Song et al., 2015; Abowd et al., 2016), highlight that changes in firm-level pay are important for understanding observe”
• Advanced Technologies Adoption and Use by U.S. Firms: Evidence from the Annual Business Survey (2020, unknown): “…larger than is planned for subsequent years, 7 Worker earnings, for instance, vary significantly by both firm (Song et al. 2019) and establishment (Barth et al. 2016), with firm-level variation in information technology investment explaining important between- and withinfirm differences in wages…”
• Skill Requirements across Firms and Labor Markets: Evidence from Job Postings for Professionals (2017, background): “Variation infirmpay, controlling for worker quality, accounts for an important fraction of the rise in income inequality over the past 30 years (Card et al. 2013; Song et al. 2015; Barth et al. 2016).”
• Firms and Labor Market Inequality: Evidence and Some Theory (2018, unknown): “Figure 1 plots results from Barth et al. (2016), showing remarkably similar trends in the dispersion of wages and productivity across business establishments in the United States.”
• Cyclical Job Ladders by Firm Size and Firm Wage (2018, unknown): “…are linked to job quality and productivity in theory and empirical 1A substantial fraction of the rise in earnings inequality in the U.S. over the last thirty years can be attributed to increased pay dispersion across firms (Barth et al. (2016), Card, Heining, and Kline (2016), Song et al. (2015)).”
• Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials and Rent Sharing in the U.S. Labor Market (2019, unknown): “A number of studies show that trends in wage dispersion closely track trends in productivity dispersion across industries and workplaces (Faggio et al., 2010; Dunne et al., 2004; Barth et al., 2016).”
• The Expanding Gender Earnings Gap: Evidence from the LEHD-2000 Census (2017, methodology): “An important literature has developed around the increase in earnings inequality across establishments and the increase in the sorting of workers by firms (see Barth et al. 2016 and Song et al. 2016 on the United States).”
• Within-Firm Pay Inequality (2017, unknown): “Lastly, several recent papers study the role of firm- and worker-level heterogeneity for trends in aggregate income inequality using data sets from the United States (Barth et al. 2016; Song et al. 2016) Germany (Card, Heining, and Kline 2013), and Brazil (Alvarez et al.”