O‐ring Wage Inequality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9725115 |
|---|---|
| Authors | ALBERTO DALMAZZO (0000-0002-9968-4419, University of Siena), Tuomas Pekkarinen (0000-0003-0976-2602, Uppsala University), Pasquale Scaramozzino (0000-0003-4917-6560, University of Rome Tor Vergata) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 295 |
| Pages | 515-536 |
| Publication date | 2007-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0335.2006.00553.x |
| OpenAlex | W2118295974 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
We examine the relationship between technological complexity and wage inequality, using an efficiency wage model that adopts Kremer's O‐ring production function. The model has two main implications: (i) when the production process becomes more complex, within‐task wage differences increase between plants, and (ii) between‐task wage differences increase within plants. We study these implications empirically using industry data providing quantified information on the complexity of the tasks. We find that wages increase in all the tasks with the complexity of the production process. Furthermore, the relationship between the complexity of the tasks and wages is steepest in the firms with more complex production processes
Biology · Economics · Efficiency wage · Function (biology) · Inequality · Labour economics · Management · Microeconomics · Process (computing) · Production (economics) · Task (project management) · Wage · Wage Inequality · Computer Science · Firm Innovation and Growth · Global trade and economics · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Mathematics
Unemployment and the structure of labor markets
Workers, Wages, and Technology
The Returns to Computer Use Revisited
Technology and Changes in Skill Structure
How Computers Have Changed the Wage Structure
Efficiency Wages and the Inter-Industry Wage Structure
Changes in Unemployment and Wage Inequality
The Origins of Technology-Skill Complementarity
Computing Inequality
Trade, Quality Upgrading, and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector
High Wage Workers and High Wage Firms
Complementarities and fit strategy, structure, and organizational change in manufacturing
The O-Ring Theory of Economic Development
Information Technology, Workplace Organization, and the Demand for Skilled Labor
Changes in the Demand for Skilled Labor within U. S. Manufacturing
Implications of Skill-Biased Technological Change
The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change
Technological Change and Employment
Wages, Employment Structure and Employer Size-wage Premia
Computerisation and Wage Dispersion
Computers and the Demand for Skilled Labour
Changes in Earnings Inequality
Inequality, Income Growth, and Mobility
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |