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100	1		_aVan Biesebroeck, Johannes. _922150
245	1	0	_aWages Equal Productivity: _bFact or Fiction? / _cJohannes Van Biesebroeck.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. _bNational Bureau of Economic Research _c2003.
300			_a1 online resource: _billustrations (black and white);
490	1		_aNBER working paper series _vno. w10174
500			_aDecember 2003.
520	3		_aUsing a matched employer-employee data set of manufacturing plants in three sub-Saharan countries, I compare the marginal productivity of different categories of workers with the wages they earn. Under certain conditions, the wage premiums for worker characteristics should equal the productivity benefits associated with them. I find that equality holds strongly for the most developed country in the sample (Zimbabwe), but not at all for the least developed country (Tanzania). Differences between wage and productivity premiums are most pronounced for characteristics that are clearly related to human capital, such as schooling, training, experience, and tenure. Localized labor markets, imperfect substitutability of different worker-types, sampling errors, and nonlinear effects are rejected as explanation for the gap between wage and productivity effects.
530			_aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538			_aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588	0		_aPrint version record
690		7	_aJ31 - Wage Level and Structure • Wage Differentials _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aJ41 - Labor Contracts _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
710	2		_aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830		0	_aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) _vno. w10174.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w10174
856			_yAcceso en línea al DOI _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w10174
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