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Changes in the Relative Structure of Wages and Employment : A Comparison of the United States, Canada, and France

Card, David - 1996

Standard models suggest that adverse labor demand shocks will lead to bigger employment losses if institutional factors … explains the contrast between the United States, where real wages fell over the 1980s and aggregate employment expanded … vigorously, and Europe, where real wages were (roughly) constant and employment was stagnant. We test this hypothesis by …

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The Returns to Skill in the United States across the Twentieth Century

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1999

Economic inequality is higher today than it has been since 1939, as measured by both the wage structure and wealth inequality. But the comparison between 1939 and 1999 is largely made out of necessity; the 1940 U.S. population census was the first to inquire of wage and salary income and...

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Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages : The Role of Spillover Effects

Fortin, Nicole Marie; Lemieux, Thomas; Lloyd, Neil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper examines the role of spillover effects of minimum wages and threat effects of unionization in changes in wage inequality in the United States between 1979 and 2017. A distribution regression framework is introduced to estimate both types of spillover effects. Threat effects double the...

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Long-Run Changes in the U.S. Wage Structure : Narrowing, Widening, Polarizing

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2007

major factor in the surge in educational wage differentials. Polarization set in during the late 1980s with employment …

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The Race between Education and Technology : The Evolution of U.S. Educational Wage Differentials, 1890 to 2005

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2007

U.S. educational and occupational wage differentials were exceptionally high at the dawn of the twentieth century and then decreased in several stages over the next eight decades. But starting in the early 1980s the labor market premium to skill rose sharply and by 2005 the college wage premium...

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Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality : Re-Assessing the Revisionists

Autor, David H. - 2005

visible in a recent "polarization" of skill demands in which employment has expanded in high-wage and low-wage work at the …

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Labour Market Reforms and Changes in Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States

Gosling, Amanda - 2001

This paper compares trends in male and female hourly wage inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States between 1979 and 1998. Our main finding is that the extent and pattern of wage inequality became increasingly similar in the two countries during this period. We attribute this...

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The Impact of Selection into the Labor Force on the Gender Wage Gap

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Boboshko, Nikolai; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has fallen since 1981. Previous research has found divergent results across techniques, identification strategies, data sets, and time periods. Using Michigan Panel Study of Income...

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The Decline of Non-Competing Groups : Changes in the Premium to Education, 1890 to 1940

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1995

Between 1890 and the late 1920s the premium to high school education declined substantially for both men and women. In 1890 ordinary office workers, whose positions generally required a high school diploma, earned almost twice what production workers did. But by the late 1920s they earned about...

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Changes in the Structure of Wages : The U.S. versus Japan

Katz, Lawrence F. - 1989

This paper examines changes in wage differentials by educational attainment and experience in the US. and Japan since the early 1970s. While educational earnings differentials have expanded dramatically in the U.S. in the 1980s, the college wage premium has increased only slightly in Japan. In...

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