Labor Market Institutions and Gender Differences in Wage Inequality

Nicole Fortin and Thomas Lemieux

Cahiers de recherche from Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative, CIREQ

Abstract: In this paper, we present graphical and quantitative evidence on the important role played by changes in labor market institutions on the rise in wage inequality in the United States during the 1980s. We show that the decline in the real value of the minimium wage and in the rate of unionization explains over a third of the rise in inequality among men.

Keywords: LABOUR MARKET; SOCIAL JUSTICE; WAGES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D60 D63 J30 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11 pages
Date: 1996
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