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Wage inequality and demand for skill: evidence from five decades.

The 1940-90 Censuses are used to examine long-run changes in male wage inequality and skill premiums and investigate the extent to which shifts in observable measures of skill supply and demand can account for relative wage fluctuations across decades. A simple supply and demand framework is quite...

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Published in:Industrial & Labor Relations Review Vol. 52; no. 3; pp. 424 - 444
Main Author: Juhn, Chinhui
Format: Article
Published: Cornell University April 1999
Subjects:
Education & economics
Wage differentials
Labor market
History
Skilled labor
Employment
United States
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