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Rising wage inequality : the 1980s experience in urban labor markets / Thomas Hyclak.
Lippincott Library HD4975 .H929 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hyclak, Thomas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wages--United States.
- Wages.
- Wages--Effect of education on.
- Regional disparities.
- United States.
- Wages--United States--Regional disparities.
- Wages--Effect of education on--United States.
- Labor market--United States.
- Labor market.
- Employee fringe benefits--United States.
- Employee fringe benefits.
- Physical Description:
- x, 159 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, [2000]
- Contents:
- The Sample of Local Labor Markets 14
- The Area Wage Survey Data 17
- 2 Trends in the Urban Wage Structure 23
- Employment Trends 23
- Median Real Wage Trends 26
- Trends in Wage Inequality 29
- Variance Decomposition 34
- Wage Inequality within Occupational Groups 37
- Relative Wages of Occupational Groups 37
- 3 Trends in Benefit and Union Contract Coverage 45
- Holiday and Vacation Time 46
- Health Insurance 48
- Pension Coverage 50
- Other Insurance Benefits 51
- Union Contract Coverage 53
- The Union Influence on Benefit Levels 55
- 4 Skill Requirements and Returns on Skills 61
- Occupational Skill Indices 62
- Returns on Skill 67
- Trends in the Skill Mix, by Occupational Group 80
- 5 Market and Institutional Factors in Rising Wage Inequality 87
- Method 88
- An Analysis of the Real Wage Level 92
- An Analysis of the Variance of Real Wages 99
- An Analysis of the 50-25 Wage Differential 105
- Overall Wage Inequality 108
- 6 Summary and Policy Implications 115
- Summary of the Results 115
- Policy Implications 118
- 7 Addendum: Atlanta in 1991 and 1996 123
- Appendix A Data Sources and Definitions of Metropolitan Areas 127
- Appendix B Wage Distribution Data 131
- Appendix C Unemployment Rates 133
- 5.1 Ratio of Wages Relative to Material Movement Worker Wages, Los Angeles 99
- 5.2 Variances of the log of Real Wages, Los Angeles 104.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-142) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0880992077
- 0880992085
- OCLC:
- 43936845
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