Rising Top, Falling Bottom: Industries and Rising Wage Inequality

John Haltiwanger, Henry R. Hyatt and James R. Spletzer

American Economic Review, 2024, vol. 114, issue 10, 3250-83

Abstract: 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.

JEL-codes: J23 J24 J31 L25 M52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.aeaweb.org/doi/10.1257/aer.20221574 (application/pdf)
https://doi.org/10.3886/E198751V1 (text/html)
https://www.aeaweb.org/doi/10.1257/aer.20221574.appx (application/pdf)
https://www.aeaweb.org/doi/10.1257/aer.20221574.ds (application/zip)
Access to full text is restricted to AEA members and institutional subscribers.

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:aea:aecrev:v:114:y:2024:i:10:p:3250-83

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.aeaweb.org/journals/subscriptions

DOI: 10.1257/aer.20221574

Access Statistics for this article

American Economic Review is currently edited by Esther Duflo

More articles in American Economic Review from American Economic Association Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Michael P. Albert ().