Preferences, Comparative Advantage, and Compensating Wage Differentials for Job Routinization

• Autores: Climent Quintana-Domeque
• Localización: Oxford bulletin of economics and statistics, ISSN 0305-9049, Vol. 73, Nº. 2, 2011, págs. 207-229
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • I attempt to explain why there is not much evidence on compensating wage differentials for job disamenities. I focus on the match between workers’ preferences for routine jobs and the variability in tasks associated with the job. Using data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, I find that mismatched workers earn lower wages and that both male and female workers in routinized jobs earn, on average, 5.5% and 7% less than their counterparts in non-routinized jobs. However, once preferences and mismatch are accounted for, this difference decreases to 2% for men, and 4% for women, not statistically significant in both cases.