Rising Top, Falling Bottom: Industries and Rising Wage Inequality

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Haltiwanger, John; Hyatt, Henry R.; Spletzer, James R.
• 署名单位: University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20221574
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 3250-3283
• 关键词: UNITED-STATES; rise; PRODUCTIVITY; polarization; dispersion; EMPLOYMENT; earnings; TRENDS; tasks; work

摘要

Most of the rise in overall earnings inequality from 1996 to 2018 is accounted for by rising between-industry dispersion. The contribution of industries is right-skewed with the top 10 percent of four-digit NAICS industries dominating. The top 10 percent are clustered in high-paying high-tech and low-paying retail sectors. In the top industries, , high-wage workers are increasingly sorted to high-wage industries with rising industry premia. In the bottom industries, , low-wage workers are increasingly sorted into low- wage industries, , with rising employment and falling industry wage premia.