Wage and productivity stability in U.S. manufacturing plants.

Wages and productivity were substantially dispersed across all manufacturing plants in 1987, but the dispersion narrowed modestly from then until 1997; the connection between a plant's level of productivity and its hourly wages weakened over the same period, and many plants exhibited substantial mov...

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Publicado en:Monthly Labor Review Vol. 131; no. 6; pp. 24 - 37
Autores principales: Long, Mark C., Dziczek, Kristin M., Luria, Daniel D., Wiarda, Edith A.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: US Department of Labor Jun2008
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Sumario:Wages and productivity were substantially dispersed across all manufacturing plants in 1987, but the dispersion narrowed modestly from then until 1997; the connection between a plant's level of productivity and its hourly wages weakened over the same period, and many plants exhibited substantial movements within the relative wage and productivity distributions