Differences and Changes in Wage Structures.
During the past two decades, wages of skilled workers in the United States rose while those of unskilled workers fell; less-educated young men in particular have suffered unprecedented losses in real earnings. These twelve original essays explore whether this trend is unique to the United States or...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1995.
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Colección: | NBER Comparative labor markets series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | During the past two decades, wages of skilled workers in the United States rose while those of unskilled workers fell; less-educated young men in particular have suffered unprecedented losses in real earnings. These twelve original essays explore whether this trend is unique to the United States or is part of a general growth in inequality in advanced countries. Focusing on labor market institutions and the supply and demand forces that affect wages, the papers compare patterns of earnings inequality and pay differentials in the United States, Australia, Korea, Japan, Western Europe, and the c. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (474 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9780226261843 0226261840 1281223433 9781281223432 9786611223434 6611223436 |