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American employer salary surveys and labor economics research: issues and contributions
Abstract: This paper reviews the uses of U.S. employer salary surveys for labor market research. Recent computational, theoretical, and econometric advances render these surveys ripe for exploitation. It summarize theories of employer wage effects and then describe salary surveys and their preparation for analysis. Then, the surveys and the methodological issues they raise are contrasted with household data. Finally, the paper summarizes the techniques used and contributions made in some salary survey-based studies.
Keywords: Labor market; Wages;
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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Part of Series: Research Paper
Publication Date: 1996
Number: 9604