TY  - BOOK
AU  - Borjas,George J.
AU  - Ramey,Valerie A.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Market Responses to Interindustry Wage Differentials
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - July 2000; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - This paper examines the link between interindustry wage differentials and subsequent growth of industry variables such as employment, GDP and labor productivity. We find that industries that paid higher than average wages in 1959 experienced significantly lower employment growth and GDP growth in the subsequent 30 to 40 years, while at the same time experiencing higher-than-average growth in the capital-labor ratio and in labor productivity. We argue that the evidence is best explained by a non-competitive model of the interindustry wage structure, as both firms and the market respond to the wage rigidity implied by the long-run persistence of the interindustry wage structure
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w7799
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w7799
ER  -