Measurement and Testing of Inequality from Time Series of Deciles with an Application to U.S. Wages

This article uses unobserved-components time series models to capture the underlying trends in the quarterly deciles of U.S. hourly wages. Tests of stability and divergence are developed as a means of assessing changes in inequality. The decrease in the wage gender gap is examined, and the impact of changes in the minimum wage is assessed. © 2003 President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Year of publication:	2003
Authors:	Harvey, Andrew ; Bernstein, Jared
Published in:	The Review of Economics and Statistics. - MIT Press. - Vol. 85.2003, 1, p. 141-152
Publisher:	MIT Press

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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