Occupations and British Wage Inequality, 1970s-2000s
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OCCUPATIONS AND THE STRUCTURE OF WAGE INEQUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES, 1980s-2000s Word Count: 11,942
Occupations have long been regarded as central to the stratification systems of industrial countries, but have played little role in empirical attempts to explain the well-documented increases in wage inequality that occurred in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s. We address this deficiency by assessing occupation-level effects on wage inequality using data from the Current Population Sur...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Sociological Review
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0266-7215,1468-2672
DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcs063