Industry localisation and earnings inequality: Evidence from U.S. manufacturing
While the productivity gains associated with the geographic concentration of industry (i.e., localisation) are by now well-documented, little work has considered how those gains are distributed across individual workers. This article offers evidence on the connection between total employment and the relative wage earnings of high- and low-skill workers (i.e., inequality) within two-digit manufacturing industries across the states, and a collection of metropolitan areas in the U.S. between 1970 and 1990. Using measures of overall, between-education-group and residual inequality, I find that wage dispersion falls significantly as industry employment expands. Copyright (c) 2007 the author(s). Journal compilation (c) 2007 RSAI.
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2007
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Authors: | Wheeler, Christopher H. |
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Papers in Regional Science. - Wiley Blackwell. - Vol. 86.2007, 1, p. 77-100
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Wiley Blackwell |
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