TY  - JOUR
AU  - Brown,Charles
AU  - Medoff,James L.
TI  - The Employer Size-Wage Effect
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 2870
PY  - 1989
Y2  - December 1989
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w2870
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w2870.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Charles C. Brown
Department of Economics
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1220
Tel: 734/763-3036
Fax: 734/647-1186
E-Mail: charlieb@umich.edu

James L. Medoff
E-Mail: N/A user is deceased
AB  - We consider six explanations for the positive relationship between employer size and wages -- large employers (1) hire higher quality workers; (2) offer inferior working conditions; (3) make more use of high wages to forestall unionization; (4) have more ability to pay high wages; (5) face smaller pools of applicants relative to vacancies; (6) are less able to monitor their workers. We find some support for the first of these, but there remains a significant wage premium for those working for large employers.
ER  -