TY - GEN A1 - Braakmann, Nils T1 - Intra-firm wage inequality and firm performance - First evidence from German linked employer-employee-data N2 - Economic theory suggests both positive and negative relationships between intra-firm wage inequality and productivity. This paper contributes to the growing empirical literature on this subject. We combine German employer-employee-data for the years 1995-2005 with inequality measures using the whole wage distribution of a firm and rely on dynamic panel-data estimators to control for unobserved heterogeneity, simultaneity problems and possible state dependence. Our results indicate a relative minor influence of intra-firm wage inequality on firm productivity. If anything, they provide some support for a view suggesting that some inequality may be beneficial, while too much leads to a detrimental effect on productivity. KW - Lohnniveau KW - Lohndifferenzierung KW - Produktivität KW - Wage dispersion KW - labor productivity Y1 - 2008 UR - http://pub-data.leuphana.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/540 SN - 1860 - 5508 ER -