Artikel

Polarization and rising wage inequality: Comparing the U.S. and Germany

Since the late 1970s, wage inequality has increased strongly both in the U.S. and Germany but the trends have been different. Wage inequality increased along the entire wage distribution during the 1980s in the U.S. and since the mid 1990s in Germany. There is evidence for wage polarization in the U.S. in the 1990s, and the increase in wage inequality in Germany was restricted to the top of the distribution before the 1990s. Using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz (1995) to separate age, time, and cohort effects, we find a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort effects in the U.S. Employment trends in both countries are consistent with polarization since the 1990s. The evidence is consistent with a technology-driven polarization of the labor market, but this cannot explain the country specific differences.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Econometrics ; ISSN: 2225-1146 ; Volume: 6 ; Year: 2018 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 1-33 ; Basel: MDPI

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Thema
wage inequality
polarization
international comparison
cohort study
quantile regression

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
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Antonczyk, Dirk
DeLeire, Thomas
Fitzenberger, Bernd
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
MDPI
(wo)
Basel
(wann)
2018

DOI
doi:10.3390/econometrics6020020
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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Antonczyk, Dirk
  • DeLeire, Thomas
  • Fitzenberger, Bernd
  • MDPI

Entstanden

  • 2018

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