Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Title: Job Levels and Wages
Author-Name: Christian Bayer
Author-Email: christian.bayer@uni-bonn.de
Author-Name: Moritz Kuhn
Author-Email: mokuhn@uni-bonn.de
Classification-JEL: D33, E24, J31
Keywords: job levels, structure, career ladder

Abstract: Job levels summarize the complexity, autonomy, and responsibility of task execution. 
Conceptually, job levels are related to the organization of production, are distinct from occupations, 
and can be constructed from data on task execution. We highlight their empirical role
in matched employer-employee data for life-cycle wage dynamics, refine a task-based view
of wage determination, and demonstrate that differences in job levels account for most of
the observed wage differences. We also show, within a structural framework, that a job-level
perspective provides a novel and fruitful interpretation of widely studied phenomena such
as the gender wage gap and the returns to education and seniority.


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Creation-Date: 2023-07
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File-URL: https://www.crctr224.de/research/discussion-papers/archive/dp437
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Handle: RePEc:bon:boncrc:CRCTR224_2023_437