Arbeitspapier
Industries, Mega Firms, and Increasing Inequality
Most of the rise in overall earnings inequality is accounted for by rising between-industry dispersion from about ten percent of 4-digit NAICS industries. These thirty industries are in the tails of the earnings distribution, and are clustered especially in high-paying high-tech and low-paying retail sectors. The remaining ninety percent of industries contribute little to between-industry earnings inequality. The rise of employment in mega firms is concentrated in the thirty industries that dominate rising earnings inequality. Among these industries, earnings differentials for the mega firms relative to small firms decline in the low-paying industries but increase in the high-paying industries. We also find that increased sorting and segregation of workers across firms mainly occurs between industries rather than within industries.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 15197
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
- Thema
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inequality
firm size
industry
wage differentials
sorting
segregation
pay premium
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Haltiwanger, John C.
Hyatt, Henry R.
Spletzer, James R.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
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2022
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Haltiwanger, John C.
- Hyatt, Henry R.
- Spletzer, James R.
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2022
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