Task implementation heterogeneity and wage dispersion
Identificadores
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12020/709ISSN: 2520-1786
DOI: 10.1186/s40172-015-0036-2
Fecha
2015Tipo de documento
articleÁrea/s de conocimiento
Ciencias Económicas y EmpresarialesCiencias Sociales, Políticas y del Comportamiento
Filosofía, Filología y Lingüística
Resumen
Wage dispersion among observationally similar workers is still only partially
unexplained by economists from both a theoretical and an empirical point of view.
Given that jobs can be broken down into tasks, namely units of work activities
producing output, we empirically test whether part of the observed variation in
wages across similar individuals is related to differences in the intensity with
which tasks are implemented. We then investigate whether the variety in task
implementation shown across occupations is related to cross-occupation wage
levels. We found that the variation in task implementation in different occupations
is related both to within-occupation wage dispersion and to cross-occupation
wage levels: workers in high-wage occupations are less defined around a typical
worker than those in other occupations.