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INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
Volume 52, Issue 4, Pages 961-989Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2354.2011.00656.x
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One explanation for productivity dispersion is that the quality of inputs differs across firms. We add labor market history variables such as experience and firm and industry tenure, as well as general human capital measures such as schooling and sex. Adding these variables decreases the ratio of the 90th to 10th productivity quantiles from 3.27 to 2.68 across eight Danish manufacturing and service industries. We also use the wage bill and worker fixed effects. We find that the wage bill explains as much dispersion as human capital measures.
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