Dark side of labour market "flexibility": falling wages and growing income inequality in America

Bennett Harrison and Barry. Bluestone

ILO Working Papers from International Labour Organization

Abstract: Shows that since the late 1970s wage distribution is shifting downhill and becoming more skewed, with a proliferation of low-income employment.

Keywords: labour flexibility.; wages; trend; income distribution; industrial restructuring; redundancy; interindustry shift; wage structure; low income.; statistical table; flexibilité du travail; salaire; tendance; répartition du revenu; flexibilidad del trabajo; salario; tendencia; distribución del ingreso; restructuration industrielle; licenciement collectif; mutation interindustrielle; structure du salaire; faible revenu; tableau statistique; reestructuración industrial; despido colectivo; desplazamiento industrial; estructura de los salarios; bajos ingresos; cuadros estadísticos (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 82 P. pages
Date: 1987
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Published in Labour market analysis and employment planning working paper series

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