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Working Paper

Sources of Wage Dispersion: The Contribution of Interemployer Differentials within Industry

An analysis of variance in individual production workers’ wages within and between establishments, using BLS Industry Wage Surveys to examine establishment-based wage differentials.

Working Papers of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland are preliminary materials circulated to stimulate discussion and critical comment on research in progress. They may not have been subject to the formal editorial review accorded official Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland publications. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland or the Federal Reserve System.


Suggested Citation

Groshen, Erica. 1988. “Sources of Wage Dispersion: The Contribution of Interemployer Differentials within Industry.” Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Working Paper No. 88-02.