TY  - JOUR
AU  - Skans, Oskar Nordström
AU  - Edin, Per-Anders
AU  - Holmlund, Bertil
TI  - Wage dispersion between and within plants: Sweden 1985-2000
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 13021
PY  - 2007
Y2  - April 2007
DO  - 10.3386/w13021
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13021
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13021.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Oskar Nordström Skans
Department of Economics, Uppsala University
Box 513
75120 Uppsala, Sweden
E-Mail: oskar.nordstrom_skans@nek.uu.se

Per-Anders Edin
Department of Economics
Uppsala University
Box 513
751 20 Uppsala  SWEDEN
Tel: 46-18-181097
Fax: 46-18-181478
E-Mail: per-anders.edin@nek.uu.se

Bertil Holmlund
Uppsala University
Department of Economics, Box 513
751 20 Uppsala, SWEDEN
E-Mail: bertil.holmlund@nek.uu.se
M1  - published as Oskar Nordström Skans, Per-Anders Edin, Bertil Holmlund. "Wage Dispersion Between and Within Plants: Sweden 1985-2000 ," in Edward P. Lazear and Kathryn L. Shaw, editors, "The Structure of Wages: An International Comparison" University of Chicago Press (2008)

M3  - presented at "Wage Structure, Raises, and Mobility", January 2, 2007
AB  - The paper describes the Swedish wage distribution and how it correlates with worker mobility and plant-specific factors. It is well known that wage inequality has increased in Sweden since the mid-1980s. However, little evidence has so far been available as to whether this development reflects increased dispersion between plants, between individuals in the same plant, or both. We use a new linked employer-employee data set and discover that a trend rise in between-plant wage inequality account for the entire increase in wage dispersion. This pattern, which remains when we control for observable individual human capital characteristics, may reflect increased sorting of workers by skill levels and/or increased scope for rent sharing in local wage negotiations. Our discussion suggests that both factors may have become more important.
ER  -