Firms with higher productivity pay higher wages, impacting employment rates.
The article shows that firms with different productivity levels pay different wages to their workers. This is because firms face diminishing returns to labor and use a bargaining process to determine wages. The study finds that more productive firms tend to pay higher wages, leading to a dispersed wage distribution. This means that in a diverse firm environment, higher productivity is rewarded with higher wages. However, this dispersed wage equilibrium results in lower overall employment compared to a single wage equilibrium.