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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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Published in:Monthly Labor Review Vol. 131; no. 6; pp. 24 - 37
Main Authors: Long, Mark C., Dziczek, Kristin M., Luria, Daniel D., Wiarda, Edith A.
Format: Article
Published: US Department of Labor Jun2008
Subjects:
United States
Labor productivity
Wages
Manufacturing industries
Factories
Labor market
Wages & labor productivity
Labor costs
Industrial buildings
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Summary: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