The role of the firm in worker wage dispersion: an analysis of the Ghanaian manufacturing sector

IZA Journal of Labor & Development

Table 2 Analysis of variances of log real hourly earnings of workers

	1992		1998		2003
	(1)		(2)		(3)
All firms
Total variance	1.105		1.376		1.067
Within	0.444		0.514		0.748
Between	0.661		0.862		0.319
Decomposing the change over time		1992–1998		1998–2003
Total change		0.271		−0.305
Within change		0.070		0.234
Between change		0.201		−0.541

Data from CSAE-RPED on the Ghanaian manufacturing sector from 1992 to 2003. I matched the worker and firm files to create the linked dataset based on which I perform the analysis. The arithmetic calculations are based on the method described in Section 3.1 in the text