Essays on the Economics of Wage Inequality

In this dissertation I examine changes in wage inequality in two chapters. In the first chapter, I examine the slowdown in the relative demand for college-educated labor in the U.S. since the early 1980s. A large literature suggests that this puzzling slowdown is primarily the result of non-monotone...

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Main Author: Tomb, Ian Alan
Other Authors: Katz, Lawrence F.
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2014
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11681
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274492