• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: National Wage Setting
  • Contributor: Hazell, Jonathon [Author]; Patterson, Christina [Author]; Sarsons, Heather [Author]; Taska, Bledi [Author]
  • Published: Bonn: Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), 2023
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: J24 ; J33 ; national wage setting ; labor markets ; H56 ; J45
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  • Description: How do firms set wages across space? Using job-level vacancy data and a survey of HR managers, we show that 40-50% of a job's posted wages are identical across locations within a firm. Moreover, nominal posted wages within the firm vary relatively little with local prices, a pattern we verify with other measures of job level wages. Using the co-movement of wage growth across establishments, we argue these patterns reflect national wage setting - a significant minority of firms choose to set the same nominal wage for a job across all their establishments, despite varying local labor market conditions.
  • Access State: Open Access