Interindustry Wage Differentials and Unobserved Ability: Siblings Evidence from Five Countries

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Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 46(1), 2007, pages 171-202

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We examine the role of unobserved ability in explaining interindustry wage differentials. By using data on brothers, we account for unmeasured abilities shared by siblings. The data came from four Nordic countries and the United States. In the Nordic countries, only a moderate proportion of the variability in industry wages can be attributed to unobserved ability, while unmeasured factors explain as much as half of the U.S. industry-wage variation. Accounting for such differences, we show that the U.S. interindustry wage dispersion is similar with that in the Nordic countries.

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By Anders Björklund, Bernt Bratsberg, Tor Eriksson, Markus Jäntti, Oddbjørn Raaum
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