Autor, David H.; Katz, Lawrence F.; Kearney, Melissa S. - 2021
A recent "revisionist " literature characterizes the pronounced rise in U.S. wage inequality since 1980 as an "episodic … that continued increases in wage inequality since the late 1980s substantially reflect the mechanical confounding effects … limited support for these claims. The slowing of the growth of overall wage inequality in the 1990s hides a divergence in the …