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



Table 5: Workplace Organization and Practices and Wage Dispersiona - NES 1996
(Continued)

Specificationsb

(1)

(2)

(3)

(3)

Manuf.

(3)
Non Man.

Computer Use

% Managers

-0.101

-0.104

-0.049

-0.119

(0.083)

(0.082)

(0.097)

(0.115)

% Others

0.137*

0.128*

0.153**

0.079

(0.073)

(0.071)

(0.075)

(0.093)

Workplace Organization

# Management Levels

0.007*

0.006*

0.005***

0.015

(0.004)

(0.004)

(0.001)

(0.018)

# Wkrs/Supervisor

0.000

-0.000

0.000

-0.000

(0.001)

(0.001)

(0.001)

(0.002)

Benchmarking

0.051

0.051

-0.020

0.140*

(0.047)

(0.050)

(0.048)

(0.075)

Re-engineering

-0.023

-0.100*

0.021

0.006

(0.049)

(0.050)

(0.041)

(0.081)

Ft-lines Team/meetings Training

-0.066

-0.073

-0.055

-0.085

(0.049)

(0.051)

(0.047)

(0.070)

Pay

Stock Option-Profit Sharing

-0.060

-0.056

-0.008

-0.065

(0.058)

(0.056)

(0.041)

(0.089)

Involvement

Meeting (% wkrs)

-0.059

0.022

-0.146**

(0.055)

(0.053)

(0.086)

Team (% wkrs)

0.099

-0.030

0.190*

(0.077)

(0.089)

(0.112)

Job Rotation (% wkrs)

-0.006

0.075

-0.027

(0.073)

(0.067)

(0.146)

^^R2

0.233

0.333

0.343

0.265

0.475

N______________________

735

648

648

476

172

a-The dependent variable is the log of the ratio of average wages of managers and production
workers.

b-Also include industry and firm-size dummies. Standard errors computed using the White
correction. 1% significance level: ***. 5% significance level: **. 10% significance level: *.

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