Do Changes in Job Mobility Explain the Growth of Wage Inequality among Men in the United States, 1977-2005?

Social Forces ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 88 (5) ◽  
pp. 2053-2077 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Mouw ◽  
A. L. Kalleberg
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Job Mobility

Wage Dispersion in Finland: Searching for Human Capital

2007 ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Hannu Piekkola
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Individual Heterogeneity ◽  
Wage Dispersion ◽  
Major Increase ◽  
D Investment ◽  
Productive Worker ◽  
Boom Period

In Finland, shifts in compensation have been of a kind comparable to those in the United States, similar but with a moderate, increasing wage variance between plants, an increasing gap between average non-productive- and productive-worker wages, and an increasing share of non-production workers. In the boom period of 1995- 1998 the education premium rose. Despite the rise in individual heterogeneity, there has been no major increase in wage dispersion. The entire rise in wage dispersion has taken place between plants, while the education premium dispersion has risen mainly within plants. At the same time, the distribution of capital and Research and Development (R&D) investment across firms has worked in the direction of mitigating wage inequality.

Wages and Employment in the United States and Germany:What Explains the Differences?

2003 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 573-602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Beaudry ◽  
David A Green
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Physical Capital ◽  
The United States ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Parallel Fashion

Over the last 20 years the wage-education relationships in the United States and Germany have evolved very differently, while the education compositions of employment have evolved in a parallel fashion. In this paper, we show how these patterns shed light on the nature of recent technological change and highlight the importance of taking into account movements in the ratio of human capital to physical capital when examining changes in the returns to skill. Our analysis indicates that the United States could have prevented the increase in wage inequality observed in the 1980's by a faster accumulation of physical capital.

scholarly journals Organized Labor and Racial Wage Inequality in the United States

2012 ◽  
Vol 117 (5) ◽  
pp. 1460-1502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jake Rosenfeld ◽  
Meredith Kleykamp
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Organized Labor

Diverging Male Wage Inequality in the United States and Ganada, 1981–1988: Do Institutions Explain the Difference?

ILR Review ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 629-651
Author(s):  
John Dinardo ◽  
Thomas Lemieux
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
The United States ◽  
Labor Market Institutions ◽  
Hourly Wage ◽  
Differential Growth ◽  
Unionization Rate ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Using Data

The U.S. and Canadian economies have much in common, including similar collective bargaining structures. During the period 1981–88, however, although both countries witnessed a decline in the percentage of workers belonging to unions and an increase in hourly wage inequality, those changes were much more pronounced in the United States than in Canada. Using data on men in Canada and the United States in 1981 and 1988 (from the Labour Force Survey and supplements to the Current Population Survey), the authors study the effect of labor market institutions on changes in wage inequality by computing simple counterfactuals such as the distribution of wages that would prevail if all workers were paid according to the observed nonunion wage schedule. Their results suggest that much more severe declines in the unionization rate in the United States than in Canada account for two-thirds of the differential growth in wage inequality between the two countries.

Globalisation and Wage Inequality: A Comparison of the Manufacturing Sector in Canada and the United States from 1970 to 2001

2009 ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Gilles Grenier ◽  
Akbar Tavakoli
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Harmful Effect ◽  
The United States ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Economic Globalisation

This article compares Canada and the United States in terms of the evolution of the relative wages of production and non-production workers in the manufacturing sector. The results show that the wage ratio is affected by similar economic globalisation variables in each country. Other than technological changes, however, the overall effect of globalisation is more pronounced in Canada. Among economic globalisation variables, such as technological changes and imports from developing countries, the latter has had a less harmful effect on low-skilled workers in the United States than those in Canada. Among the other variables, the wage gap is more affected by union density in Canada. The impact of immigration is low in both countries.

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