Slonimczyk, Fabián - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 11 (2013) 2, pp. 163-194
This paper shows that skill mismatch is a significant source of inequality in real earnings in the U.S. and that a substantial fraction of the increase in wage dispersion during the period 1973–2002 was due to the increase in mismatch rates and mismatch premia. In 2000–2002, surplus and...