Wage and Productivity Dispersion in United States Manufacturing: The Role of Computer Investment

Timothy Dunne, Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger and Kenneth Troske

Journal of Labor Economics, 2004, vol. 22, issue 2, 397-430

Abstract: Using establishment-level data, we shed light on the sources of the changes in the structure of production, wages, and employment that have occurred over recent decades. Our findings are: (1) the between-plant component of wage dispersion is an important and growing part of total wage dispersion; (2) much of the between-plant increase in wage dispersion is within industries; (3) the between-plant measures of wage and productivity dispersion have increased substantially over recent decades; and (4) a significant fraction of the rising dispersion in wages and productivity is accounted for by changes in the distribution of computer investment across plants.

Date: 2004
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