Explaining levels of within-group wage inequality in U.S. labor markets.
Most research on earnings inequality has focused on the growing gap between workers of different races and at different education, age, and income levels, but a large portion of the increasing inequality has actually occurred within these groups. This article focuses on the extent and sources of “wi...
| Publicado en: | Demography Vol. 37; no. 4; pp. 415 - 431 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
November 2000
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