recent changes in the U.S. distribution of wages. The effects of these factors are estimated by applying kernel density … of wages these various factors exert the greatest impact. Using data from the Current Population Survey, we find, as in ….S. distribution of wages from 1979 to 1988 …

This paper examines the role of spillover effects of minimum wages and threat effects of unionization in changes in … inequality. Spillover effects magnify the explanatory power of declining minimum wages to two-thirds of the increase in …