Redding, Stephen; Itskhoki, Oleg; Muendler, Marc-Andreas; … - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2012
While neoclassical theory emphasizes the impact of trade on wage inequality between occupations and industries, more …. Using linked employer-employee data for Brazil, we show that much of the increase in wage inequality between 1986 and 1998 … has occurred within sector-occupations; the increase in the within component of wage inequality is driven by wage …