Firms’ wage policies: New evidence from linked employer-employee data

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Autor(a) principal: Suleman, F.
Data de Publicação: 2013
Outros Autores: Lagoa, S., Suleman, A., Pereira, M.L.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/6089
Resumo: The research on wage policies has been triggered by the interest in identifying whether labour market or institutional forces shape the wage settings inside firms. This paper draws on linked employer-employee data and uses a fuzzy c-means clustering analysis to identify typical wage policies of medium and large firms in Portugal. Empirical evidence suggests that firms are segmented into four clusters that can be labelled according to wage rules as “Regulated”, “Asymmetric”, “Hierarchical” and “Discretionary”. The first two clusters comprise low wage firms, and are highly responsive to market conditions. The firms belonging to the latter clusters take advantage of discretionary power to differentiate the workforce. Our findings therefore illustrate different dimensions of wage flexibility. Furthermore, we found that employment flexibility and wage adjustments can coexist, and affects female, young, and blue collar workers in particular.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Firms’ wage policies: New evidence from linked employer-employee data
title Firms’ wage policies: New evidence from linked employer-employee data
spellingShingle Firms’ wage policies: New evidence from linked employer-employee data
Suleman, F.
Firms’ wage policies
Wage flexibility
Employment
Flexibility
title_short Firms’ wage policies: New evidence from linked employer-employee data
title_full Firms’ wage policies: New evidence from linked employer-employee data
title_fullStr Firms’ wage policies: New evidence from linked employer-employee data
title_full_unstemmed Firms’ wage policies: New evidence from linked employer-employee data
title_sort Firms’ wage policies: New evidence from linked employer-employee data
author Suleman, F.
author_facet Suleman, F.
Lagoa, S.
Suleman, A.
Pereira, M.L.
author_role author
author2 Lagoa, S.
Suleman, A.
Pereira, M.L.
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Suleman, F.
Lagoa, S.
Suleman, A.
Pereira, M.L.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Firms’ wage policies
Wage flexibility
Employment
Flexibility
topic Firms’ wage policies
Wage flexibility
Employment
Flexibility
description The research on wage policies has been triggered by the interest in identifying whether labour market or institutional forces shape the wage settings inside firms. This paper draws on linked employer-employee data and uses a fuzzy c-means clustering analysis to identify typical wage policies of medium and large firms in Portugal. Empirical evidence suggests that firms are segmented into four clusters that can be labelled according to wage rules as “Regulated”, “Asymmetric”, “Hierarchical” and “Discretionary”. The first two clusters comprise low wage firms, and are highly responsive to market conditions. The firms belonging to the latter clusters take advantage of discretionary power to differentiate the workforce. Our findings therefore illustrate different dimensions of wage flexibility. Furthermore, we found that employment flexibility and wage adjustments can coexist, and affects female, young, and blue collar workers in particular.
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