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International Trade and Job Polarization : Evidence at the Worker-Level

Keller, Wolfgang - 2016

This paper examines the role of international trade for job polarization, the phenomenon in which employment for high- and low-wage occupations increases but mid-wage occupations decline. With employer-employee matched data on virtually all workers and firms in Denmark between 1999 and 2009, we...

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Changing Inequality in Markets for Workplace Amenities

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1998

We know that earnings inequality has increased sharply in the United States since the late 1970s, but there has been no evidence on the changing inequality of nonmonetary aspects of work nor on how any such changes are related to changes in earnings. I begin by studying patterns of interindustry...

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Wages, Nonwage Job Characteristics, and Labor Mobility

Bartel, Ann P. - 1980

This paper examines the impact of a set of nonwage job characteristics on the quit decisions of young and middle-aged men. The empirical analysis shows that young men are less likely to quit "physical" jobs or jobs with bad working conditions but are more likely to quit repetitive jobs. Older...

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Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in the Netherlands 1999-2003

Borghans, Lex - 2007

In this paper we document the wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands in the period 1999-2003. We explain … the importance of wage-setting institutions in the Netherlands and the main actors. The analyses are based on … period investigated the Netherlands experienced an increase in wage inequality. Despite the centralized system of wage …

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The impact of international trade on wages

Feenstra, Robert C. (ed.) - 2000

Since the early 1980s, the U.S. economy has experienced a growing wage differential: high-skilled workers have claimed an increasing share of available income, while low-skilled workers have seen an absolute decline in real wages. How and why this disparity has arisen is a matter of ongoing...

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Wage and Earnings Inequality Between and Within Occupations : The Role of Labor Supply

Erosa, Andrés; Fuster, Luisa; Kambourov, Gueorgui; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We document systematic differences in wage and earnings inequality between and within occupations and show that these differences are intimately related to systematic differences in labor supply across occupations. We then develop a variant of a Roy model in which earnings are a non-linear...

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Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market

Acemoglu, Daron - 2000

This essay discusses the effect of technical change on wage inequality. I argue that the behavior of wages and returns to schooling indicates that technical change has been skill-biased during the past sixty years. Furthermore, the recent increase in inequality is most likely due to an...

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Fiscal Institutions and Public Sector Labor Markets

Poterba, James M. - 1998

This paper investigates how state and local fiscal institutions affect the pattern of relative wages between state and local government employees and their private sector counterparts. It focuses on changes in relative wages during the 1979-1986 period. Empirical analysis of data from the...

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Labor Market Information and Wage Differentials by Race and Sex

Neumark, David - 1998

This paper attempts to test whether information problems in labor markets can explain why minority or female workers are sometimes paid less than equally-qualified white male workers. In particular, the relationship between starting wages, current performance, and race and sex is studied. OLS...

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Computing Inequality : Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?

Autor, David H. - 1997

This paper examines the effect of technological change and other factors on the relative demand for workers with different education levels and on the recent growth of U.S. educational wage differentials. A simple supply-demand framework is used to interpret changes in the relative quantities,...

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