Measurement and Testing of Inequality from Time Series of Deciles with an Application to U.S. Wages

Andrew Harvey and Jared Bernstein
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The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003, vol. 85, issue 1, 141-152

Abstract: This article uses unobserved-components time series models to capture the underlying trends in the quarterly deciles of U.S. hourly wages. Tests of stability and divergence are developed as a means of assessing changes in inequality. The decrease in the wage gender gap is examined, and the impact of changes in the minimum wage is assessed. © 2003 President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Date: 2003
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