TY  - JOUR
AU  - Davis,Steve J.
AU  - Haltiwanger,John
TI  - Wage Dispersion Between and Within U.S. Manufacturing Plants, 1963-1986
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 3722
PY  - 1991
Y2  - May 1991
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3722
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3722.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Steven J. Davis
Booth School of Business
The University of Chicago
5807 South Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 773/702-7312
Fax: 773/834-0733
E-Mail: Steven.Davis@ChicagoBooth.edu

John C. Haltiwanger
Department of Economics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Tel: 301/405-3504
Fax: 301/405-3542
E-Mail: haltiwan@econ.umd.edu
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 1991-11-01
AB  - This paper exploits a rich and largely untapped source of information on the wages and other characteristics of individual manufacturing plants to cast new light on recent changes in the United States wage structure. Our primary data source, the Longitudinal Research Datafile (LRD) , contains observations on more than 300,000 manufacturing plants during Census years (1963, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982) and 50,000-70,000 plants during intercensus years since 1972. We use the information in the LRD to investigate changes in the plant-wage structure over the past three decades. We also combine plant-level wage observations in the LRD with wage observations on individual workers in the Current Population Survey (CPS) to estimate the between-plant and within-plant components of overall wage dispersion.
ER  -