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Title: Wage Inequality and Labor Market Segmentation: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study Cohorts
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Morris, Martina Bernhardt, Annette Handcock, Mark S. Scott, Marc A. |
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Wage Inequality and Labor Market Segmentation: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study Cohorts Presented: Chicago, IL, Population Association of America Meetings, April 1998 Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Men Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Labor Market Segmentation; Mobility; Mobility, Economic; Wage Equations; Wage Growth Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The long term implications of the recent dramatic growth in economic inequality are not well understood. A key question is whether growing cross-sectional inequality is being driven by rising labor market segmentation into winners and losers: some workers with jobs that provide high wages and economic mobility, but others caught in a cycle of dead-end jobs with little opportunity for lifetime wage growth. We analyze the early work histories of two cohorts of young white men from the NLS for evidence of such changes. Both cohorts are 14-22 at entry and are followed for 16 years. The original cohort entered in 1966, the recent in 1979. We find that job instability has risen in the recent cohort, and that their longitudinal age-earnings profiles are becoming more unequal. The evidence suggests that labor market segmentation is rising, and that members of the recent cohort face a lifetime of greater inequality. |
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Morris, Martina, Annette Bernhardt, Mark S. Handcock and Marc A. Scott. "Wage Inequality and Labor Market Segmentation: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study Cohorts." Presented: Chicago, IL, Population Association of America Meetings, April 1998. |