measure the effects of spending inequality on the inequality in test scores between children from different family backgrounds …

. These small average effects arise from a significant 4-5 percentage point impact for men with only primary education …, coupled with a zero-effect for men with higher education. The positive impacts for less-educated men suggest that mandatory …

expanded rapidly. Wage dispersion among individuals with the same age and education also rose. A simple explanation for both … integrates 3 dimensions of skill: age, education, and unobserved ability. We find that a one-dimensional skill model gives a …

deciles of the wage distribution, and to calculate the effects of shifting unionism on wage inequality. Among men, union rates … explains 10-20 percent of the rise in male wage inequality over the past 25 years. Among women, union membership has fallen for … little effect on female inequality, and may have actually accentuated the rise in inequality. Economy-wide trends in union …

comparing changes in wages and employment rates over the 1980s for different age and education groups in the United States …

inequality, focusing on evidence from cross-city comparisons in the U.S. Although some researchers have argued that a cross … school education are perfect substitutes for those with a high school education; (2) "high school equivalent" and "college … equivalent" workers are imperfect substitutes; (3) within education groups, immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes …

The rise in wage inequality in the U.S. labor market during the 1980s is usually attributed to skill-biased technical … evidence in favor of this hypothesis, focusing on the implications of SBTC for economy-wide trends in wage inequality, and for … inequality stabilized in the 1990s, despite continuing advances in computer technology. SBTC also fails to explain the closing of …