Levels of Responsibility in Jobs and the Distribution of Earnings among U.S. Engineers, 1961–1986
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7801508 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Ferrall (0000-0002-4551-8255, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 150-169 |
| Publication date | 1995-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001979399504900110 |
| OpenAlex | W1984234546 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
This study, using data from the Professional, Administrative, Technical, and Clerical Pay Survey and the Current Population Survey, examines how the assignment of responsibility within firms affected the structure of wages of U.S. engineers between 1961 and 1986. Patterns of wage dispersion in this sample mirrored patterns found in broader segments of the labor market during the same period. In engineering, wage dispersion within levels of responsibility fell steadily between 1976 and 1986, while wage dispersion between levels rose. At the same time, engineering jobs began to migrate to lower levels within firms. The author explains the trends in wages and job assignments as responses to changes in the supply of and demand for engineers, within the framework of hierarchy models of responsibility
Business · Current Population Survey · Demographic economics · Dispersion (optics) · Distribution (mathematics) · Earnings · Economics · Efficiency wage · Fell · Geography · Hierarchy · Labour economics · Market economy · Microeconomics · Population · Sample (material) · Sociology · Supply and demand · Wage · Wage dispersion · Accounting · Demography · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Mathematics · Political Economy and Marxism
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Some Generalized Functions for the Size Distribution of Income
Heterogeneity, Aggregation, and Market Wage Functions
Effects of Cohort Size on Earnings
Reputation and Hierarchy in Dynamic Models of Employment
Wage Inequality and the Rise in Returns to Skill
What Do We Really Know about Wages? The Importance of Nonreporting and Census Imputation
Trends in the Growth and Distribution of Skills in the U.S. Workplace, 1960–1985
Are Skill Requirements Rising? Evidence from Production and Clerical Jobs
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |