Autor, David H.; Katz, Lawrence F.; Kearney, Melissa S. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 90 (2008) 2, pp. 300-323
A recent "revisionist" literature characterizes the pronounced rise in U.S. wage inequality since 1980 as an "episodic" event of the first half of the 1980s driven by nonmarket factors (particularly a falling real minimum wage) and concludes that continued increases in wage inequality since the...