Skill intensity and rising wage dispersion in nineteenth-century American manufacturing

Journal of Economic History

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 172-192

  Atack, Jeremy ^a   Bateman, Fred ^b   Margo, Robert A ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCOME DISTRIBUTION; MANUFACTURING; NINETEENTH CENTURY; SKILLED LABOR;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1942435252     PISSN: 00220507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0022050704002645     Document Type: Article

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