This paper presents an overview of the changes in wage inequality in industrialized countries. The paper first presents a number of stylized facts about the evolution of wage inequality in Canada, the United States, and the large European economies. A key pattern that comes out of the data is...

This paper argues that changes in the returns to occupational tasks have contributed to changes in the wage distribution over the last three decades. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we first show that the 1990s polarization of wages is explained by changes in wage setting between and...