Research Papers
American Employer Salary Surveys and Labor Economics Research: Issues and Contributions
March 1996 Number 9604

Author: Erica L. Groshen

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 summarizes theories of employer wage effects and then describes 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.

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