Causes of changing earnings inequality

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This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained. Finally, it considers the implications of organizational change as a possible rationale for recent inequality developments.

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• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 29

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions ; Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights ; Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity ; Factor Income Distribution
• Subject: Inequality ; Income distribution ; Earnings ; Wage rigidities ; Skilled and unskilled workers ; Education ; Globalization ; Technological change ; Organizational change ; Labor supply ; Minimum wage ; Unionization ; Einkommensverteilung ; Arbeitsmarkt ; Lohn ; Institutioneller Wandel ; Lean Production ; USA ; Europa

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Snower, Dennis J.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 1999

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/2240