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Workforce composition and earnings inequality


Abstract: A presentation of a model that incorporates many factors simultaneously -- including education, experience, and industry choice -- to explain the growing disparity in Americans earnings. Its main finding is that the shifting composition of the U.S. workforce is a significant and direct determinant of the widening earnings gap.

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Part of Series: Economic Review

Publication Date: 1997

Issue: Q II

Pages: 13-24