This study explores why registered nurses employed in nonprofit nursing homes earn higher wages than those employed in proprietary facilities. Previous studies have explained this finding in a property rights context, where higher wages were posited to result from the weaker incentives for cost...

We posit that larger employers possess greater information than smaller employers about the effects of on-the-job training (OJT) investments on the productivity of their workers. As a result, larger employers pay a greater percentage of OJT costs, and OJT is effectively more firm-specific at...

Jobs differ along many dimensions including firm size. The wage gap due to firm size of 35% is comparable to the gender wage gap of 36% for men over women and greater than the wage gap of 14% for whites over black employees. The size-wage premium is larger for men and varies across industries....

This paper investigates the effects of varying consumption patterns for families with and without children on measured trends in child poverty. The authors first use data from consumer expenditure surveys to calculate price indices by family type. They next examine the effect of using these...

As early as 1911, Henry L. Moore documented that the wages of female textile workers in Italy were higher in larger establishments. In the last thirty years a large number of studies have demonstrated the presence of employer size-wage effects (at both the plant and firm level) in numerous...