Human Resource Management Practices and Wage Dispersion in U.S. Establishments



Table 4: Systems of Employee Involvement Practices and Wage Dispersiona, NES 1993

Specification b

I

Coef.

χ2-test

si = si~1

II

Coef.

χ2-test

si = si~1

III

Coef.

χ2-test

si = si~1

IV

Coef.

χ2-test

si = si~1

V

Coef.

χ2-test

si = si~1

Firm Technology

Workplace

Stock Option/ Profit Sharing

System Sq (no Employee Involvement Practices)

“No
No
No

0.605***

(0.234)

Yes

No

No

Manufacturing

0.851***

(0.226)

Yes

Yes

No

Sector

0.805***

(0.233)

Yes

Yes

No

0.807***

(0.232)

Yes

Yes

Yes

0.840***
(0.232)

System S (Meetings or Job Rotation, or Teamwork

0.650***

0.43

0.939***

1.39

0.924***

2.34

0.928***

2.37

0.971***

2.57

used as individual practices or in pairs)

(0.215)

(0.76)

(0.213)

(0.23)

(0.226)

(0.12)

(0.230)

(0.12)

(0.233)

(0.10)

System St2 (Meetings and Job Rotation and Teamwork)

0.656***

0.01

0.989***

0.68

0.938***

0.05

0.906***

0.02

0.961***

0.00

χ2-test S0 = S2
(p-value)

(0.230)

(0.91)
0.44

(0.50)

(0.229)

(0.40)
2.56
(o.ιi)

(0.242)

(0.81)
2.35
(0.12)

(0.282)

(0.88)

0.42
(0.50)

(0.284)

(0.96)
0.63
(0.41)

IC

ОТ


System S11 (S and Ft-Iines Training)

0.000
(0.073)

-0.001

(0.072)

System S2 (S2 and Ft-Iines Training)

0.046

-0.039

(0.159)

(0.158)

N=477 obs.

Non Manufacturing Sector

System S0 (No Employee Involvement Practices)

0.629***            0.478**             0.486**              0.501**

0.426

(0.239)                (0.229)                (0.231)                (0.236)

(0.276)

System ∣S∣ (Meetings or Job Rotation, or Teamwork

0.739*** 0.54      0.602*** 0.74      0.587*** 0.52      0.620***

0.61      0.554*     0.74

used as individual practices or in pairs)

(0.221)     (0.46)     (0.226)     (0.39)     (0.226)     (0.47)     (0.240)

(0.45)     (0.297)     (0.39)

Systβm S*2 ( Meetings and Job Rotation and Teamwork)

0.787*** 0.39      0.708*** 1.94      0.671***   1.28      0.794***

2.58      0.715**    2.03

(0.229)     (0.53)     (0.235)     (0.16)     (0.243)     (0.25)     (0.273)

(0.10)     (0.341)     (0.15)

χ2-test S0 = S2

0.99                   1.99                   1.35

2.68                  2.50

(p-value)

(0.31)                  (0.15)                  (0.24)

(0.10)                  (0.11)

System S11 (S and Ft-Iines Training)

-0.010

-0.017

(0.070)

(0.073)

System S2 (S2 and Ft-Iines Training)

-0.136

-0.131

(0.120)

(0.121)

N=236 obs.____________________________

a-The dependent variable is the log of the average wage ratio for managers and production workers. Standard errors computed using the White correction.
b-Includes the value of the firm’s capital stock, new equipment, labor and other costs, equipment age, industry, firm-size and union dummies.




More intriguing information

1. Voluntary Teaming and Effort
2. Regional Intergration and Migration: An Economic Geography Model with Hetergenous Labour Force
3. A Consistent Nonparametric Test for Causality in Quantile
4. The name is absent
5. AMINO ACIDS SEQUENCE ANALYSIS ON COLLAGEN
6. The name is absent
7. The name is absent
8. Fiscal federalism and Fiscal Autonomy: Lessons for the UK from other Industrialised Countries
9. A novel selective 11b-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 inhibitor prevents human adipogenesis
10. Testing the Information Matrix Equality with Robust Estimators