Causes of Changing Earnings Inequality

Dennis Snower

No 29, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained. Finally, it considers the implications of organizational change as a possible rationale for recent inequality developments.

Keywords: inequality; income distribution; earnings; wage rigidities; skilled an unskilled workers; education; globalization; technological and organizational change; labor supply; minimum wage; unionization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D23 D24 D31 D33 D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 55 pages
Date: 1999-01
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