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the latter is driven by job mobility. The model also explains the non-normality observed in logwage data. -- Panel data …
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In this paper we use a relatively new panel data quantile regression technique to examine native-immigrant earnings differentials 1) throughout the conditional wage distribution, and 2) controlling for individual heterogeneity. No previous papers have simultaneously considered these factors. We...
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We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may have contributed to increasing inequality in …: the high initial manufacturing wage premium and the high level of income inequality. The manufacturing wage premium … declined between the 1980s and the 2000s in the United States, but it does not explain the contemporaneous rise in inequality …
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This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First, we find that household characteristics explain about...
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This paper utilizes the self-employed to analyze the observed increase in the educational earnings premium in the 1980's. The paper compares the predictions of the signaling and human capital models in response to an exogenous demand shock such as a skill-biased technological change. Since the...
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intra-level wage inequality and yearly promotion rate. In contrast, wages are more distinctly attached to hierarchy levels …
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independently from education and that the results are not driven by workers' occupational mobility. -- Wage dynamics ; occupational … choice ; earnings inequality …
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This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Its focus is upon mid-career promotion and wages, thereby complementing extant studies of the NLSY that...
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From 2010 to 2019, personal earnings inequality declined in the United States (U.S.) for the first time in decades, yet … household income inequality continued to increase. Discordance between trends in personal earnings inequality and household … income inequality was greater than in any other decade in recent U.S. history. We introduce a framework to decompose …
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Heathcote et al. (2010) conducted an empirical analysis of several dimensions of inequality in the United States over …, the gender wage gap has kept shrinking. Both individual- and household-level income inequality have continued to rise at … the top, while the cyclical component of inequality dominates dynamics below the median. Inequality in consumption …
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