New Estimates for Wage Rate Inequality Using the Employment Cost Index.
The Employment Cost Index measures the change in wage rates for a fixed set of jobs over time. The separate indices for industry and occupation groups grew at varying rates during the 1980s. However, their growth rates have been much more similar since then, which implies that the increase in the wa...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Human Resources Vol. 38; no. 4; pp. 792 - 806 |
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University of Wisconsin Press
Fall2003
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