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Why Do Big Firms Pay Higher Wages? Evidence from an International Database

Overview of attention for article published in Review of Economics & Statistics, February 2009
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Article details
Title
Why Do Big Firms Pay Higher Wages? Evidence from an International Database
Published in
Review of Economics & Statistics, February 2009
DOI 10.1162/rest.91.1.213
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Portugal 1 2%
China 1 2%
Unknown 40 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 17%
Other 4 10%
Student > Master 4 10%
Researcher 4 10%
Lecturer 3 7%
Other 11 26%
Unknown 9 21%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 15 36%
Business, Management and Accounting 7 17%
Social Sciences 6 14%
Arts and Humanities 1 2%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 2%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 10 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 June 2026.
All research outputs
#2,057,593
of 34,359,530 outputs
Outputs from Review of Economics & Statistics
#768
of 3,619 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,336
of 251,727 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Review of Economics & Statistics
#9
of 17 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,359,530 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,619 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 22.1. This one has done well, scoring higher than 78% of its peers.
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