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Efficiency Wages and the Inter-Industry Wage Structure
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This paper uses cross-sectional and longitudinal data to examine differences in pay for equally-skilled workers in different ind ustries. The major finding is that there is substantial dispersion in wages across industries, even after allowing for measured and unmeas ured labor quality, working conditions, fringe benefits, transitory d emand shocks, the threat of union-ization, union bargaining power, fi rm size, and other factors. In addition, evidence is presented demons trating that turnover has a negative relationship with industry wage differentials. These findings suggest that workers in high-wage indus tries receive noncompetitive rents. Copyright 1988 by The Econometric Society.
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- Authors
- Krueger, A. B., & Summers, L. H.
- Venue
- Econometrica
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1988-03
- Volume
- 56
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 259
- ISSN
- 0012-9682 (ISSN-L)
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- W1980366830
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- 1,663
- References
- 1
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- 101.64
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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