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Skill Intensity and Rising Wage Dispersion in Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing

Published:2004-03 Issue:1 Volume:64 Page:172-192
ISSN:0022-0507
Container-title:The Journal of Economic History
language:en
Short-container-title:J. Econ. Hist.

Author:

ATACK JEREMY,BATEMAN FRED,MARGO ROBERT A.

Abstract

We study the correlates of the monthly establishment wage—the average monthly wage at the establishment level—and changes in wage dispersion between plants using a model of manufacturing developed by Goldin and Katz and data from manuscript censuses of manufacturing. We find that wages were decreasing in establishment size, but increasing in capital intensity and use of steam power. We also find an increase in inequality in the establishment wage between 1850 and 1880. Most of the increase occurred below the median wage and can be attributed, in part, to the growing concentration of employment in large establishments.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous),Economics and Econometrics,History

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