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Earnings inequality has been increasing. This column uses individual US data to understand the causes of this phenomenon from the late 1990s to the late 2010s. Over 60% of the rise in labour earnings inequality is driven by growing inequality between industries, rather than within industries. Moreover, 30 out of a total of 301 industries account for nearly the entire rise in
Orazio Attanasio, Peter Levell, Hamish Low, Virginia Sánchez Marcos In spite of the substantial decline in gender differences in labour market outcomes observed over the last few decades in developed countries, substantial gender gaps remain. As discussed in Blau and Kahn (2017), gender gaps in terms of conventional human capital variables are now small, particularly among highly educated individuals. However, a gender pay gap persists, and is more pronounced at the top of the wage distribution. The dynamics of the gender wage gap during the early career Empirical evidence of a widening over...