Industrial Change and Wage Inequality

Evidence from the Steel Industry

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3603274
AutoresPatricia Beeson, Patricia E Beeson, Lara Shore-Sheppard, Lara Shore‐Sheppard, Kathryn Shaw
Ano2001
Volume54
Fascículo2A
Páginas466-483
Data de publicação2001-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoIndustrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/001979390105400225
OpenAlexW2075327696
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas16

The empirical analysis in this paper, which draws on Current Population Survey data, indicates that structural decline in the steel industry during the 1980s markedly affected the distribution of wages both in the industry and in steel-producing communities. The steelworker wage distribution experienced both a drop in the mean and an increase in the variance, becoming very similar to the distribution of wages in other durable goods manufacturing industries. Declines in steel employment substantially increased wage inequality in steel-producing communities, even among workers not employed in steel

Business · Current Population Survey · Demographic economics · Distribution (mathematics) · Economics · Inequality · Labour economics · Manufacturing · Population · Variance (accounting) · Wage · Wage Inequality · Firm Innovation and Growth · Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Mathematics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis