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



Table 6: Workplace Organization and Practices and Wage Dispersiona - NES 1993
(Continued)

Specificationsb

(1)

(2)

(3)

(3)

Manuf.

(3)
Non Man.

Computer Use

% Managers

-0.168*

-0.213**

-0.088

-0.394***

(0.091)

(0.089)

(0.108)

(0.125)

% Others

0.058

0.055

-0.085

0.168*

(0.083)

(0.079)

(0.101)

(0.099)

Workplace

# Management Levels

-0.008

-0.004

0.038

-0.002

(0.015)

(0.015)

(0.021)

(0.019)

# Wkrs/Supervisor

0.003**

0.003**

0.001

0.007***

(0.001)

(0.001)

(0.001)

(0.002)

Benchmarking

0.032

0.008

0.009

0.027

(0.052)

(0.048)

(0.062)

(0.059)

TQM

-0.020

-0.021

0.020

-0.020

(0.055)

(0.055)

(0.062)

(0.075)

Ft-lines Team/meetings Training

-0.020

-0.027

0.033

-0.024

(0.053)

(0.052)

(0.069)

(0.070)

Pay

Stock Option-Profit Sharing

-0.011

-0.014

-0.049

0.072

(0.068)

(0.069)

(0.065)

(0.093)

Involvement

Meeting (% wkrs)

0.054

-0.030

0.138*

(0.053)

(0.065)

(0.079)

Team (% wkrs)

0.180**

0.074

0.225**

(0.090)

(0.101)

(0.104)

Job Rotation (% wkrs)

-0.070

0.005

-0.140

(0.085)

(0.067)

(0.173)

-R2

0.225

0.268

07283

0.330

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729

729

729

489

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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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