Wage dispersion, returns to skill, and black-white wage differentials.

Autor/inn/en	Card, David; Lemieux, Thomas
Titel	Wage dispersion, returns to skill, and black-white wage differentials. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Lohnstreuung, Qualifikationsrenditen und Lohnunterschiede zwischen Schwarzen und Weißen.
Quelle	In: Journal of econometrics, 74 (1996) 2, S. 319-361 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0304-4076
DOI	10.1016/0304-4076(95)01757-7
Schlagwörter	Lebensalter; Frau; Bildungsertrag; Einkommensunterschied; Erwerbstätigkeit; Qualifikation; Einflussfaktor; Entwicklung; Mann; Schwarzer; Weißer; USA
Abstract	"During the 1980s wage differentials between different age and education groups expanded rapidly. Wage dispersion among individuals with the same age and education also rose. A simple explanation for both sets of facts is that earnings vary with a one-dimensional index of skill and that the relative return to higher levels of skill rose over the decade. We explore a simple method for estimating and testing such a 'single-index" model of wages. Our approach integrates three aspects of skill: age, education, and unobserved ability. We find that a one-dimensional skill model provides a reasonably accurate, although oversimplified, description of changes in the structure of wages for white men and women between 1979 and 1989. We then use the estimated models for white women and white men to interpret recent changes in the relative wages of African American workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2021 Elsevier).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2022/2