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Differences and changes in wage structures

Title: Differences and changes in wage structures / edited by Richard B. Freeman and Lawrence F. Katz.
Publication: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Description

ix, 461 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

In the two decades since the 1970s, wages of skilled workers in the United States rose while those of unskilled workers fell; less-educated young men in particular suffered unprecedented losses in real earnings. These twelve original essays explore whether this trend is unique to the United States or is part of a general growth in inequality in advanced countries.
Focusing on labor market institutions and the supply and demand forces that affect wages, the papers compare patterns of earnings inequality and pay differentials in the United States, Australia, Korea, Japan, Western Europe, and the changing economies of Eastern Europe. Cross-country studies examine issues such as managerial compensation, gender differences in earnings, and the relationship of pay to regional unemployment.
Drawing from this rich store of data, the contributors attribute changes in relative wages and unemployment among countries both to differences in labor market institutions and training and education systems, and to long-term shifts in supply and demand for skilled workers. These shifts are driven in part by skill-biased technological change and the growing internationalization of advanced industrial economies.

Series Statement

NBER Comparative labor markets series

Uniform Title

NBER Comparative labor markets series.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Contents

Introduction and Summary / Richard B. Freeman and Lawrence F. Katz -- 1. A Comparison of Changes in the Structure of Wages in Four OECD Countries / Lawrence F. Katz, Gary W. Loveman and David G. Blanchflower -- 2. International Differences in Executive and Managerial Compensation / John M. Abowd and Michael L. Bognanno -- 3. The Gender Earnings Gap: Some International Evidence / Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn -- 4. International Wage Curves / David G. Blanchflower and Andrew J. Oswald -- 5. The Changing Structure of Male Earnings in Britain, 1974-1988 / John Schmitt -- 6. Real Wages, Employment, and Wage Dispersion in U.S. and Australian Labor Markets / Robert G. Gregory and Francis Vella -- 7. Labor Markets and Economic Growth: Lessons from Korea's Industrialization, 1970-1990 / Dae-Il Kim and Robert H. Topel -- 8. Wage Differentials in Italy: Market Forces, Institutions, and Inflation / Christopher L. Erickson and Andrea C. Ichino --
9. The Swedish Wage Structure: The Rise and Fall of Solidarity Wage Policy? / Per-Anders Edin and Bertil Holmlund -- 10. Getting Together and Breaking Apart: The Decline of Centralized Collective Bargaining / Richard B. Freeman and Robert S. Gibbons -- 11. Earnings Inequality in Germany / Katharine G. Abraham and Susan N. Houseman -- 12. A Comparative Analysis of East and West German Labor Markets: Before and After Unification / Alan B. Krueger and Jorn-Steffen Pischke.

ISBN

0226261603

LCCN

95011716

OCLC

ocm32203382

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries