Arbeitspapier
Wage inequality of US truck drivers
Using CPS data for the period 1979-2009, the wage dispersion of truck drivers (and subsets of the truck driving sample) is compared to the trends in wage dispersion of males economy-wide. We find that truckers' wages experienced a decrease in inequality post-deregulation, as expected given the literature on regulation's impact on the labor market. We also find that the wage dispersion for truckers is markedly different from males economy-wide, providing evidence that the wage distribution of truck drivers has been dominated by the changing structure of the occupation post-deregulation and largely immune to the factors that increased inequality for the aggregate labor market.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5444
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Railroads and Other Surface Transportation
- Thema
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wage differentials
wage inequality
trucking
Verkehrsberufe
Straßengüterverkehr
Lohnstruktur
Deregulierung
USA
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Monaco, Kristen
Habermalz, Steffen
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2011
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-201104113172
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Monaco, Kristen
- Habermalz, Steffen
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2011