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Explaining levels of within-group wage inequality in U.S. labor markets

Leslie McCall
Demography (2000) 37 (4): 415–430.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2000.0008
Published: 01 November 2000
... on the extent and sources of “within-group” wage inequality in more than 500 labor markets in the United States in 1990. In addition to documenting that within-group wage inequality across regions varies more widely today than over the past several decades, the analysis reveals that two frequently cited...
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Labor Force Participation Over the Life Course: The Long-Term Effects of Employment Trajectories on Wages and the Gendered Payoff to Employment

Katherine Weisshaar, Tania Cabello-Hutt
Demography (2020) 57 (1): 33–60.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-019-00845-8
Published: 29 January 2020
...Katherine Weisshaar; Tania Cabello-Hutt Abstract In this article, we consider how individuals’ long-term employment trajectories relate to wage inequality and the gender wage gap in the United States. Using more than 30 years of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 sample, we...
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Immigration and the Wage Distribution in the United States

Ken-Hou Lin, Inbar Weiss
Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2229–2252.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-019-00828-9
Published: 22 November 2019
...Ken-Hou Lin; Inbar Weiss Abstract This article assesses the connection between immigration and wage inequality in the United States. Departing from the focus on how the average wages of different native groups respond to immigration, we examine how immigrants shape the overall wage distribution...
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Employment gains and wage declines: The erosion of black women’s relative wages since 1980

Becky Pettit, Stephanie Ewert
Demography (2009) 46 (3): 469–492.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.0.0061
Published: 01 August 2009
... 1979 to 2005. We investigate how demographic and labor market conditions influence employment and wage inequality among black and white women over the period. Although shifts in labor supply influence the magnitude of the black-white wage gap among women, structural disadvantages faced by black women...
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Poverty and macroeconomic performance across space, race, and family structure

Craig Gundersen, James P. Ziliak
Demography (2004) 41 (1): 61–86.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2004.0004
Published: 01 February 2004
... of poverty, in general, were tempered by rising wage inequality, simulations indicated that female-headed families and families that were headed by black persons experienced substantial reductions in poverty in the 1990s largely because of the growth in median wages. An auxiliary time-series analysis...
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Revealing the Concealed Effect of Top Earnings on the Gender Gap in the Economic Value of Higher Education in the United States, 1980–2017

Hadas Mandel, Assaf Rotman
Demography (2021) 58 (2): 551–570.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9009367
Published: 01 April 2021
... quarter and, even more so, the top decile. Moreover, insufficient theoretical and methodological attention to this top premium effect has left gender inequality concealed in the extensive empirical studies on the topic. Specifically, when we artificially censor the top at the 80th wage percentile...
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Immigration and males’ earnings inequality in the regions of the United States

Deborah Reed
Demography (2001) 38 (3): 363–373.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2001.0029
Published: 01 August 2001
..., primarily by changing the composition of the population. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2001 2001 Gini Coefficient High School Diploma Recent Immigration Wage Inequality Annual Earning References Altonji , J. , &amp; Card , D. ( 1991 ). The Effects...
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Gender Segregation, Occupational Sorting, and Growth of Wage Disparities Between Women

Felix Busch
Demography (2020) 57 (3): 1063–1088.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-020-00887-3
Published: 22 June 2020
... disparities between women, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1992–2015). Compositional change with respect to education is the main driver for growing inequality. Other factors are less influential but still relevant: marginal returns for several wage-related personal characteristics have grown...
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Education–Occupation Mismatch and Nativity Inequality Among Highly Educated U.S. Workers

Xiaoguang Li, Yao Lu
Demography (2023) 60 (1): 201–226.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10404849
Published: 01 February 2023
... are a source of this inequality. Using longitudinal data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, we examine nativity differences in the incidence and wage penalty of education–occupation mismatch among highly educated workers. The results demonstrate that high-skilled immigrants, especially those...
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The Evolution of Occupational Segregation in the United States, 1940–2010: Gains and Losses of Gender–Race/Ethnicity Groups

Coral del Río, Olga Alonso-Villar
Demography (2015) 52 (3): 967–988.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-015-0390-5
Published: 08 May 2015
... (if the index is positive) or disadvantage (if the index is negative) of the group, derived from its segregation, as a proportion of the average wage of the economy. Our index is a helpful tool not only for academics but also for institutions concerned with inequalities among demographic groups because it makes...
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Educational Variations in Cohort Trends in the Black-White Earnings Gap Among Men: Evidence From Administrative Earnings Data

Siwei Cheng, Christopher R. Tamborini, ChangHwan Kim, Arthur Sakamoto
Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2253–2277.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-019-00827-w
Published: 02 December 2019
... American men, their average wages are about 15% lower than for white men after these demographic characteristics and occupational attainment are controlled for (Couch and Daly 2002 ; Farley 1996 ; Grodsky and Pager 2001 ; Neal and Rick 2014 ). Black-white earnings inequality has been substantially...
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Trends in the Motherhood Wage Penalty and Fatherhood Wage Premium for Low, Middle, and High Earners

Rebecca Glauber
Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1663–1680.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0712-5
Published: 25 September 2018
... were 47 % of the total workforce, and for the first time, the majority of workers in managerial and professional occupations (Buchmann and McDaniel 2016 ). Second, as income and wage inequality between women and men decreased, income and wage inequality among women and among men increased (Autor...
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The political economy of inequality in the “age of extremes”

Michael Hout, Richard Arum, Kim Voss
Demography (1996) 33 (4): 421–425.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061776
Published: 01 November 1996
... and inequality. Massey is to be commended for the global reach of his address. Our comment is much more "U.S.-centric"; we dis- cuss the United States so much because it is the case we know best. We trust that other commentators will take up the comparative issues. JOBS, PRODUCTIVITY, AND WAGE INEQUALITY...
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Reproducing inequalities: Luck, wallets, and the enduring effects of childhood health

Alberto Palloni
Demography (2006) 43 (4): 587–615.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2006.0036
Published: 01 November 2006
...Alberto Palloni Abstract In this article, I argue that research on social stratification, on intergenerational transmission of inequalities, and on the theory of factor payments and wage determination will be strengthened by studying the role played by early childhood health. I show...
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Social networks and their impact on the earnings of Mexican Migrants

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Kusum Mundra
Demography (2007) 44 (4): 849–863.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2007.0039
Published: 01 November 2007
.... 1697 – 760 ). Elsevier : Princeton, NJ and London . Borjas G.J. , &amp; Ramey V.A. ( 1994 ). Time Series Evidence on the Source of Trends in Wage Inequality . American Economic Review , 84 , 10 – 16 . Chiquiar D. , &amp; Hanson G.H. ( 2005 ). International Migration...
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Gender Pay Gap and Employment Sector: Sources of Earnings Disparities in the United States, 1970–2010

Hadas Mandel, Moshe Semyonov
Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1597–1618.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-014-0320-y
Published: 23 August 2014
... . 10.1007/s13524-012-0151-7 Blau , F. D. , &amp; Kahn , L. M. ( 1994 ). Rising wage inequality and the U.S. gender gap . American Economic Review , 84 , 23 – 28 . Blau , F. D. , &amp; Kahn , L. M. ( 1997 ). Swimming upstream: Trends in the gender wage differential...
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“Having it all” no longer: Fertility, Female Labor supply, and the new life choices of Generation x

James P. Vere
Demography (2007) 44 (4): 821–828.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2007.0035
Published: 01 November 2007
... Association of America 2007 2007 Labor Supply Current Population Survey Female Labor Force Participation Female Labor Supply Life Choice References Autor D.H. , Katz L.F. , &amp; Kearney M.S. ( 2005 ). Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Re-Assessing the Revisionists...
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Gender Wage Gap Accounting: The Role of Selection Bias

Michael Bar, Seik Kim, Oksana Leukhina
Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1729–1750.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-015-0418-x
Published: 10 September 2015
... provides a theory for the participation decision in the standard Heckman model. The dependence of the selection bias on the price of unobservable characteristics is derived. 31 7 2015 10 9 2015 © Population Association of America 2015 2015 Rising inequality Gender wage gap...
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The declining significance of race among American men during The latter half of the twentieth century

Arthur Sakamoto, Huei-Hsia Wu, Jessie M. Tzeng
Demography (2000) 37 (1): 41–51.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2648095
Published: 01 February 2000
... , D.J. , Cancio , A.S. , &amp; Evans , T.D. ( 1996 ). Cognitive Skills and Racial Wage Inequality: Reply to Farkas and Vicknair . American Sociological Review , 61 , 561 – 64 . 10.2307/2096393 McLemore , S.D. , &amp; Romo , H.D. ( 1998 ). Racial and Ethnic Relations...
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Occupational Inflexibility and Women's Employment During the Transition to Parenthood

Patrick Ishizuka, Kelly Musick
Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1249–1274.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9373598
Published: 01 August 2021
... inequality in the labor market ( Cha and Weeden 2014 ; Cortés and Pan 2019 ; Gornick and Meyers 2003 ). Because the occupational prevalence of 40-plus-hour workweeks and the wage returns to longer hours have gendered consequences, work hour inflexibility increases the employment gap between mothers...
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