Real Wage Inequality Enrico Moretti UC Berkeley, NBER, CEPR and IZA First Draft: May 2008 This Draft May 2009 Abstract. A large literature has documented a significant increase in the difference between the wage of college graduates and high school graduates over the past 30 years.
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Evidence on Wage Inequality, Worker Education, and Technology Christopher H. Wheeler The rise in U.S. wage inequality over the past two decades is commonly associated with an increase in the use of "skill-biased" technologies (e.g., computer equipment) in the workplace, yet relatively few studies have attempted to...
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The slowing of the growth of overall wage inequality in the 1990s hides a divergence in the paths of upper-tail (90/50) inequality -- which has increased steadily since 1980, even adjusting for changes in labor force composition -- and lower tail (50/10) inequality, which rose sharply in the first-half of the 1980s...
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Immigration accounts for just a small share - about 5 percent - of the rise in overall U.S. wage inequality between 1980 and 2000. ...
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In the past couple of decades the issue of wage inequality has become a topic of discussion in government circles, within corporations and small businesses ...
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About half of the return to a college education over and above that of a high school education, is eaten up by higher costs of livingâ”college grads tend to live in high wage but high cost urban areas. So says this working paper by Enrico Moretti (HT: Peter St. Onge).
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Most economists concur that wage inequality has been increasing in the United States since the 1970s.1 However, not all economists agree on the reasons behind this trend.2 One of the more widely held positions hypothesizes that increasing wage dispersion has been driven by skill-biased technical change benefiting those...
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Answers.com > Wiki Answers > Categories > Home and Garden > Home Buying > Are there any current or past news events related to wage inequality in home building...
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Related works:; Journal Article: Black-White Wage Inequality in the 1990s: a Decade of Progress (2002); This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
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