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



Table 7: Involvement Practices and Wage Dispersiona
Quantile Regressions

Quantilesb

Manufacturing

Non Manufacturing

10th

25th

75th

90th

10th

25th

75th

90th

NES96

Meeting (% wkrs)

-0.002

0.099**

0.093

0.029

0.047

0.083

-0.158

-0.336**

(0.051)

(0.044)

(0.063)

(0.087)

(0.125)

(0.104)

(0.124)

(0.160)

Team (% wkrs)

-0.106*

-0.161**

-0.009

-0.059

0.107

-0.086

0.161

0.142

(0.064)

(0.065)

(0.090)

(0.080)

(0.199)

(0.165)

(0.173)

(0.171)

Job Rotation (% wkrs)

0.081

0.113*

0.000

0.083

-0.151

-0.122

0.148

0.030

(0.076)

(0.067)

(0.074)

(0.081)

(0.185)

(0.179)

(0.166)

(0.184)

NES93

Manuf

Non Manuf

Meeting (% wkrs)

-0.000

0.042

0.035

0.036

0.016

0.121**

0.050

0.100

(0.050)

(0.052)

(0.062)

(0.091)

(0.073)

(0.061)

(0.070)

(0.129)

Team (% wkrs)

0.031

-0.028

-0.107

0.026

-0.018

-0.018

-0.019

-0.011

(0.087)

(0.064)

(0.109)

(0.124)

(0.159)

(0.162)

(0.147)

(0.200)

Job Rotation (% wkrs)

0.105

0.068

0.021

-0.112

0.193

0.047

0.212

0.221

(0.082)

(0.057)

(0.087)

(0.139)

(0.142)

(0.171)

(0.233)

(0.238)

a-The estimation also includes variables describing technology and workforce characteristics, industry and

firm-size dummies. Standard errors computed using bootstrapping. 1% significance level: ***.

5% significance level: **. 10% significance level: *.

b-Quantile regression based on the 10th, 25th, 75th, and 90th percentiles of the distribution of manager to production
workers wage ratios.

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