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
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5444

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Railroads and Other Surface Transportation
Thema
wage differentials
wage inequality
trucking
Verkehrsberufe
Straßengüterverkehr
Lohnstruktur
Deregulierung
USA

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Monaco, Kristen
Habermalz, Steffen
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2011

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-201104113172
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Monaco, Kristen
  • Habermalz, Steffen
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2011

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