SOURCE / article
Wage Dispersion and Productive Efficiency: Evidence for Sweden
About this source
The peer-reviewed Journal of Labor Economics article consulted for differentiated findings about interindustry and within-industry wage compression.
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Where this source is used
From 1956 to 1983, Swedish solidaristic wage policy operated through coordinated peak bargaining with industry and workplace implementation rather than through one uniform wage fixed centrally.
- qualifies · pp. 755–758 and note 3
Hibbs and Locking find that reduced interindustry wage differentials contributed positively to aggregate output and productivity growth, while finding no support for productivity gains from wage leveling within workplaces and industries.
- supports · abstract