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Workforce composition and earnings inequality

Abstract
A presentation of a model that incorporates many factors simultaneously -- including education, experience, and industry choice -- to explain the growing disparity in Americans earnings. Its main finding is that the shifting composition of the U.S. workforce is a significant and direct determinant of the widening earnings gap.. Income distribution ; Labor supply ; Education

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Download http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/review/1997/97-q2-schweitzer.pdf
Repository RePEc (Germany)
Type article