Research Catalog

Title

Using regional data to reexamine the contribution of demographic and sectoral changes to increasing U.S. wage inequality / Lynn A. Karoly and Jacob Alex Klerman.

Author

Karoly, Lynn A., 1961-

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

Klerman, Jacob Alex.

Description

pages [183]-216 : illustrations; 28 cm

Summary

This paper uses geographical disaggregation to reevaluate the importance of sectoral and demographic shifts in explaining recent changes in the U.S. wage distribution. Using hourly earnings data from the Current Population Survey, the authors explore two approaches to assessing the contribution of demographic and sectoral changes to the increase in inequality in that distribution. The first approach uses fine disaggregations of the sample of workers by age and industry to conduct shift-share analyses. The second approach conducts regression analyses of the trend in inequality for the panel sample of geographic areas as a function of aggregate measures of demographic, industry, macroeconomic and international trade variables.

Series Statement

Rand reprints ; RAND/RP-277. Labor & Population Program reprint series ; 94-01

Uniform Title

• Rand reprints ; RAND/RP-277.
• Rand reprints. Labor & Population Program reprint series ; 94-01.

Subject

• Wage differentials > United States
• Income distribution > United States
• Income distribution
• Wage differentials
• United States

Genre/Form

Periodicals

Note

• Reprint. Originally published in: Changing distribution of income in an open U.S. economy. Amsterdam : North-Holland, 1994, p. 183-216.
• "Labor & Population Program."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-216).

OCLC

• ocm48972169
• 48972169
• SCSB-14351120

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library