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（薪酬）增长引擎？英国汽车行业的生产率与工资
An engine of (pay) growth? Productivity and wages in the UK auto industry
摘要
To what extent do identical workers in an industry benefit from productivity growth in the same industry? We study this question in the context of the UK auto industry which experienced a thirteen-fold increase in output per worker between 1980 and 2018. Over the same period, auto workers saw substantially stronger hourly wage growth than workers in other manufacturing industries. Controlling for unobserved worker heterogeneity, the auto wage premium over other manufacturing workers doubled from 8% in the 1980s to 17% in the 2010s, while the manufacturing premium over the rest of the economy remained roughly stable at 5%. Interpreted through the lens of a rent sharing model, we estimate that 63% of the increase in the raw firm-level auto wage premium can be accounted for by strong productivity growth. In contrast, differential bargaining power between auto workers cannot account for these changes.
中文摘要
同一产业内的同质工人能在多大程度上从该产业的生产率增长中获益？我们以英国汽车产业为背景研究这一问题，该产业在1980年至2018年间每工人产出增长了十三倍。同一时期，汽车工人的小时工资增长显著强于其他制造业行业的工人。在控制不可观测的工人异质性后，汽车工人相对于其他制造业工人的工资溢价从1980年代的8%翻倍至2010年代的17%，而制造业相对于整体经济其余部分的溢价则大致稳定在5%。以租金分享模型的视角进行解读，我们估计，企业层面汽车工资总溢价增幅中的63%可由强劲的生产率增长所解释。相比之下，汽车工人之间议价能力的差异无法解释这些变化。