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wages in the 1990s compared to the 1980s. We find that changes in human capital did not contribute to the slowdown, since … larger positive effect on women's relative wages in the 1980s, explaining a portion of the slower 1990s convergence. However …, the largest factor was that the "unexplained" gender wage gap fell much faster in the 1980s than the 1990s. Our evidence …
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We use Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics data and data from a 2008 telephone survey of adults conducted by Westat for the Princeton Data Improvement Initiative (PDII) to explore the importance and feasibility of adding retrospective questions about actual work experience to cross-sectional...
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Using microdata from the 1994-8 International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) for nine countries, we examine the role of cognitive skills in explaining higher wage inequality in the United States. We find that while the greater dispersion of cognitive test scores in the United States plays a part...
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