TY  - JOUR
AU  - Allen,Steven G.
TI  - Updated Notes on the Interindustry Wage Structure
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 4664
PY  - 1994
Y2  - February 1994
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4664
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4664.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Steven G. Allen
Jenkins Graduate School of Management
NC State University
2124 Nelson Hall
P.O.Box 7229
Raleigh, NC  27695-7229
Tel: 919/515-6941
Fax: 919/515-5073
E-Mail: steve_allen@ncsu.edu
AB  - This paper documents and analyzes changes in the wage structure across manufacturing industries over the last one hundred years. Inter-industry differentials in wages are highly stable for production workers, but autocorrelation patterns for nonproduction workers are considerably weaker.  Industry wage patterns are very similar for production and nonproduction workers today, but this has been true only since 1958.  Dispersion of wages across industries has shown varying trends over the last one hundred years, but has never in this century been higher than it is today.  The variables that are most strongly correlated with wage growth are productivity growth, rising union density, rising capital intensity, and profit growth.
ER  -