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Gender Wage Differentials, Affirmative Action, and Employment Growth on the Industry Level
Fields, Judith; Wolff, Edward N. - 1997
Shatz (1996) support this argument with the observation that the overall gender gap in wages tended to narrow in these … and Katz (1987) find education to be the most important variable in explaining inter-industry variations in average wages … (including both genders). Bound and Johnson (1992), too, cite a substantial increase in the relative wages of highly educated …
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Interindustry wage differentials and the gender wage gap
Fields, Judith - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 49 (1995) 1, pp. 105-120
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Inequality and rising profitability in the United States, 1947-2012
Wolff, Edward N. - In: International review of applied economics 29 (2015) 6, pp. 741-769
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Skills, bargaining power and rising interindustry wage inequality since 1970
Howell, David R. - In: Review of radical political economics 23 (1991) 1, pp. 30-37
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Are computers driving real wages down?
Wolff, Edward N. - In: Information economics and policy : IEP 21 (2009) 3, pp. 211-228
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Skills, computerization, and earnings in the postwar US economy
Wolff, Edward N. (contributor) - 2001
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Skills, Computerization, and Earnings in the Postwar U.S. Economy
Wolff, Edward N. - 2001
Using both time-series and pooled cross-section, time-series data for 44 industries over the period 1947-1997 in the United States, no evidence is found to support the idea that the growth of skills or educational attainment had any statistically significant effect on growth of earnings. On the...
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The Great Recession and racial inequality : evidence from measures of economic well-being
Masterson, Thomas; Zacharias, Ajit; Rios-Avila, Fernando; … - 2017
The Great Recession had a tremendous impact on low-income Americans, in particular black and Latino Americans. The losses in terms of employment and earnings are matched only by the losses in terms of real wealth. In many ways, however, these losses are merely a continuation of trends that have...
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Long-term trends in the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW), United States, 1959- 2004
Wolff, Edward N. (contributor); Zacharias, Ajit (contributor) - 2009
We use here a new measure of household economic well-being called LIMEW. LIMEW is different in scope from the official U.S. Census Bureau measure of gross money income (MI) in that it includes taxes, noncash transfers, public consumption, income from wealth, and household production. We analyze...
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A comparison of inequality and living standards in Canada and the United States using an expanded measure of economic well-being
Wolff, Edward N.; Zacharias, Ajit; Masterson, Thomas; … - 2012
We use the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-being (LIMEW), the most comprehensive income measure available to date, to compare economic well-being in Canada and the United States in the first decade of the 21st century. This study represents the first international comparison based on...
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