Wage inequality of US truck drivers

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5444

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Railroads and Other Surface Transportation
• Subject: wage differentials ; wage inequality ; trucking ; Verkehrsberufe ; Straßengüterverkehr ; Lohnstruktur ; Deregulierung ; USA

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Monaco, Kristen ; Habermalz, Steffen
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/46137
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-201104113172
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET