The role of jobs in explaining UK wage inequality

Luke Heath Milsom and Shihang Hou

No 939, Economics Series Working Papers from University of Oxford, Department of Economics

Abstract: Previous work that seeks to decompose wage variance into worker and firm components often ends in a puzzle: sorting between firms and workers explains a large fraction of the log wage variance but firm differences are only a small component.

Date: 2021-06-15
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:55dd8c28-ea13-4e9b-8cce-82dfe6ba251f (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oxf:wpaper:939

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Economics Series Working Papers from University of Oxford, Department of Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Anne Pouliquen (facultyadmin@economics.ox.ac.uk this e-mail address is bad, please contact repec@repec.org).