Decomposing wage variation: a comment on Michael P. Keane's “Individual heterogeneity and interindustry wage differentials”.

Keane (1993) uses panel data to control for the effects of time-invariant individual characteristics when estimating the effects of industry on wages. He concludes that these individual effects can account for 84 percent of the industry-associated variation found in typical cross-section studies....

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Published in:	Journal of Human Resources Vol. 30; pp. 853 - 861
Main Author:	Blackburn, McKinley L.
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Wisconsin Press Fall95
Subjects:	Wage differentials American men Employment Wages Mathematical models
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