Bertay, Ata Can
[VerfasserIn];
CARRENO, JOSE
[VerfasserIn];
Huizinga, Harry
[VerfasserIn];
Uras, Burak
[VerfasserIn];
Vellekoop, Nathanael
[VerfasserIn]
Beschreibung:
This paper utilizes a comprehensive worker-firm panel for the Netherlands to quantify the impact of ICT capital-skill complementarity on the finance wage premium after the Global Financial Crisis. We apply additive worker and firm fixed-effectmodels to account for unobserved worker- and firm-heterogeneity and show that firm fixed-effects correct for a downward bias in the estimated finance wage premium. Our results indicate a sizable finance wage premium for both fixed- and full-hourly wages. The complementarity between ICT capital spending and the share of high skill workers at the firm-level reduces the full-wage premium considerably and the fixed-wage premium almost entirely