Spatial wage differentials, geographic frictions and the organization of labor within firms

IF 3.5 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS
Camilo Acosta , Ditte Håkonsson Lyngemark
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Abstract

This paper studies the spatial organization of firms, both theoretically and empirically. Two new facts in Danish register data motivate the analysis: (i) firms have become increasingly spatially fragmented, and (ii) headquarters (HQ) establishments have become more manager-intensive. We develop and estimate a structural model in which firms allocate labor across establishments and produce non-rival, manager-intensive HQ services. Identification relies on exogenous variation in labor supply induced by commuting-augmented immigration shocks. We estimate elasticities of substitution across establishments of −9.8 for workers and −1.1 for managers, consistent with firms reallocating general labor more easily than managerial inputs. Our decomposition shows that rising managerial wages at HQs – interacted with firm-level scale effects – explain about half of the observed increase in HQ managerial intensity, highlighting the importance of intangible internal inputs in shaping firm spatial structure.
空间工资差异、地理摩擦和企业内部的劳动力组织
本文从理论和实证两方面对企业的空间组织进行了研究。丹麦注册数据中的两个新事实促使了分析:(i)公司在空间上变得越来越分散,(ii)总部(HQ)机构变得更加经理密集。我们开发并估计了一个结构模型,在这个模型中,公司在各个机构之间分配劳动力,并提供非竞争的、经理密集型的总部服务。识别依赖于通勤增强移民冲击引起的劳动力供给的外生变化。我们估计,企业的替代弹性对工人为- 9.8,对管理人员为- 1.1,这与企业重新分配一般劳动力比重新分配管理投入更容易一致。我们的分解表明,总部管理人员工资的上升——与公司层面的规模效应相互作用——解释了所观察到的总部管理强度增加的一半左右,突出了无形的内部投入在塑造公司空间结构中的重要性。
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CiteScore
5.30
自引率
9.70%
发文量
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期刊介绍: Regional Science and Urban Economics facilitates and encourages high-quality scholarship on important issues in regional and urban economics. It publishes significant contributions that are theoretical or empirical, positive or normative. It solicits original papers with a spatial dimension that can be of interest to economists. Empirical papers studying causal mechanisms are expected to propose a convincing identification strategy.
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