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Regional research and development intensity and earnings inequality

Dadres, Susan; Ginther, Donna K. - In: Economic Review (2001) Q2, pp. 13-26

Investment in technology increased rapidly in the United States during the past two decades, leading some to herald the birth of a "new economy." This new economy, marked by rapid productivity growth, rising incomes, low unemployment, and moderate inflation, creates a "rising tide that lifts all...

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The role of location in evaluating racial wage disparity

Black, Dan; Kolesnikova, Natalia; Sanders, Seth G.; … - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2009

A standard object of empirical analysis in labor economics is a modified Mincer wage function in which an individual's log wage is specified to be a function of education, experience, and an indicator variable identifying race. Researchers hope that estimates from this exercise can be...

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Rising wage inequality in the U.S.

Valletta, Robert - In: FRBSF Economic Letter (1997)

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The effects of industry employment shifts on U.S. wage structure, 1979-1995

Valletta, Robert G. - In: Economic Review (1997), pp. 16-32

The trend toward increasing U.S. wage inequality during the 1980s is well documented. I investigate the role of employment shifts from goods-producing to service-producing industries in contributing to increased inequality during the period 1979-1995. Earlier analyses revealed that average...

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Economic inequality in the United States

Yellen, Janet L. - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2006

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The level and distribution of economic well-being

Bernanke, Ben S. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2007

a speech before the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, Omaha, Nebraska

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Job separations, heterogeneity, and earnings inequality

Amaral, Pedro S. - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland - 2009

Changes in the fraction of workers experiencing job separations can account for most of the increase in earnings dispersion that occurred both between, as well as within educational groups in the United States from the mid-1970s to the mid- 1980s. This is not true of changes in average earnings...

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Recent real income and wage trends in the United States

Kroch, Eugene - In: Quarterly Review (1991) Sum, pp. 36-39

explain why real wages have not kept up with aggregate measures of real income. …

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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zone" where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …

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Poverty in New York City, 1969-99: the influence of demographic change, income growth, and income inequality

Levitan, Mark K.; Wieler, Susan S. - In: Economic Policy Review (2008) Jul, pp. 13-30

traced to the stagnation of wages at the low end of the earnings distribution. …

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