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Title: Inequality of Earnings

Author(s): Dennis J. Snower

Publication Date: December 1999

Keyword(s): Earnings, Education, Globalization, Income Distribution, Inequality, Labour Supply, Minimum Wage, Organizational Change, Skilled and Unskilled Workers, Technological Change, Unionization and Wage Rigidities

Programme Area(s): Labour Economics and Public Economics

Abstract: This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained. Finally, it considers the implications of organizational change as a possible rationale for recent inequality developments.

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Snower, D. 1999. 'Inequality of Earnings'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=2321