 Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Revising the Revisionists. A Replication Study of Autor, Katz, and Kearney (The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008)Corinne Stephenson Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics (JCRE), 2024, vol. 3, 1-26 Abstract: This paper successfully replicates Autor et al. (2008) and extends their analysis through 2022. The extension to an additional 17 years of analysis underscores the original finding that rising wage inequality was not an episodic event of the 1980s. That being said, overall 90/10 inequality and the college wage premium have plateaued since 2005. Despite overall inequality plateauing, uppertail 90/50 inequality has continued to increase since 1980 for both men and women. I also find that the composition-adjusted real wages of high school dropouts has caught up with high school graduates in the last decade. Between 2012 and 2022, high school dropouts saw larger real wage gains than any other education group. The combination of these findings is consistent with rising polarization in which employment and wages expand for high-wage and low-wage work. Keywords: Wage Structure; Inequality; Technological Change; Labor Market Institutions; MinimumWage; Replication Study (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:zbw:jcreco:299993 DOI: 10.18718/81781.34 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics (JCRE) is currently edited by David A. Jaeger, Maren Duvendack, W. Robert Reed More articles in Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics (JCRE) from ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics Contact information at EDIRC. |
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