Barth, Erling, Bryson, Alex, Davis, James C. and Freeman, Richard (2014) It's where you work: increases in earnings dispersion across establishments and individuals in the U.S. NBER working paper (20447). National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass.
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This paper links data on establishments and individuals to analyze the role of establishments in the increase in inequality that has become a central topic in economic analysis and policy debate. It decomposes changes in the variance of ln earnings among individuals into the part due to changes in earnings among establishments and the part due to changes in earnings within-establishments and finds that much of the 1970s-2010s increase in earnings inequality results from increased dispersion of the earnings among the establishments where individuals work. It also shows that the divergence of establishment earnings occurred within and across industries and was associated with increased variance of revenues per worker. Our results direct attention to the fundamental role of establishment-level pay setting and economic adjustments in earnings inequality.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.nber.org/papers/w9395 |
| Additional Information: | © 2014 The Authors, NBER |
| Divisions: | Centre for Economic Performance |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Dec 2014 11:41 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 19:15 |
| Funders: | Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard University, National Bureau of Economic Research, Norwegian Research Council (project 173591/S20) |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/60494 |
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