Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/202890 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Upjohn Institute Working Paper No. 18-292
Publisher: 
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI
Abstract: 
The occupational structure of an establishment provides a description of its production process by detailing the distribution and relative intensity of tasks performed. In this paper, I investigate whether there are substantive differences in the occupational structures of low- and high-wage service sector establishments. I show that low-wage establishments organize production to use less labor in professional occupations compared to high-wage establishments operating in the same local-labor market and industry. In addition, low-wage establishments employ fewer individuals in information technology occupations, employ fewer managers, and have substantially wider supervisory spans of control. These results indicate that, despite operating in the same narrowly defined labor and product markets, low-wage establishments organize production to less intensively use labor in skilled occupations.
Subjects: 
Occupations
Wage Inequality
Organization of Production
Service Industry
JEL: 
J23
J31
L23
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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