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| Tekijä: | Card, D. Lemieux, T. |
| Otsikko: | Wage dispersion, returns to skill, and black-white wage differentials |
| Lehti: | Journal of Econometrics
1996 : VOL. 74:2, p. 319-316 |
| Asiasana: | PAY DIFFERENTIALS EARNINGS MODELS |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | During the 1980s wage differentials between different age and education groups expanded rapidly. Wage dispersion among individuals with same age and education also rose. A simple explanation for both sets of facts is that earnings vary with a one-dimensional index of skill and that the relative return to higher levels of skill rose over the decade. We find that a one-dimensional skill model provides a reasonably accurate, although oversimplified, description of changes in the structure of wages for white men and women between 1979 and 1989. We then use the estimated models for white women and white men to interpret recent changes in the relative wages of African American workers. |
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