Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 
Author-Name: Fabling Richard 
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Fabling
Author-Email: richard.fabling@xtra.co.nz
Author-Workplace-Name: Motu Economic and Public Policy Research
Author-Name: David Maré
Author-X-Name-First: David 
Author-X-Name-Last: Maré
Author-Email: dave.mare@motu.org.nz
Author-Workplace-Name: Motu Economic and Public Policy Research
Title: Pay in M?ori-led firms 
Abstract: This study examines whether working in a M?ori-led firm contributes to the earnings of M?ori employees. It uses administrative data for 2005-2020 to identify M?ori-led firms, based on the ethnicity and descent of working proprietors, and using an improved method of measuring descent. Almost 8% of M?ori employees work in M?ori-led firms. Controlling for firm and worker characteristics, we find that M?ori-led firms have slightly lower than average multi-factor productivity and wage levels. The wage effects for M?ori of working in a M?ori-led firm are small but there is some evidence to suggest that moving between M?ori-led firms contributes to wage growth for w?hine M?ori, and that in M?ori-led firms there is stronger pass-through of firm performance to earnings levels for t?ne M?ori.
Length: 49 pages
Creation-Date: 2024-12
File-URL: https://motu-www.motu.org.nz/wpapers/24_05.pdf
Number: 24_05
Classification-JEL: J30; J15; J71; J42
Keywords: earnings; productivity; M?ori; ethnicity
Handle: RePEc:mtu:wpaper:24_05