Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald, Rainey, Anthony, Avent-Holt, Dustin, Bandelj, Nina, Boza, István, Cort, David, Godechot, Olivier, Hajdu, Gergely, Hällsten, Martin, Folke Henriksen, Lasse, Skeie Hermansen, Are, Hou, Feng, Jung, Jiwook, Kanjuo-Mrcela, Aleksandra, King, Joe, Kodama, Naomi, Kristal, Tali, Krízková, Alena, Lippényi, Zoltán, Maja Melzer, Silvia, Mun, Eunmi, Penner, Andrew, Petersen, Trond, Poje, Andreja, Safi, Mirna, Thaning, Max, Tufail, Zaibu. 2020. Rising between-workplace inequalities in high-income countries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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Abstract
It is well documented that earnings inequalities have risen in many high-income countries. Less clear are the linkages between rising income inequality and workplace dynamics, how within- and between-workplace inequality varies across countries, and to what extent these inequalities are moderated by national labor market institutions. In order to describe changes in the initial between- and within-firm market income distribution we analyze administrative records for 2,000,000,000+ job years nested within 50,000,000+ workplace years for 14 high-income countries in North America, Scandinavia, Continental and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia. We find that countries vary a great deal in their levels and trends in earnings inequality but that the between-workplace share of wage inequality is growing in almost all countries examined and is in no country declining. We also find that earnings inequalities and the share of between-workplace inequalities are lower and grew less strongly in countries with stronger institutional employment protections and rose faster when these labor market protections weakened. Our findings suggest that firm-level restructuring and increasing wage inequalities between workplaces are more central contributors to rising income inequality than previously recognized.
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Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Journal article |
Journal | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) |
Citation Index | SCI |
WU-Journal-Rating new | MAR-A+, VW-A |
Language | English |
Title | Rising between-workplace inequalities in high-income countries |
Year | 2020 |
Reviewed? | Y |
URL | https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/04/07/1918249117 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918249117 |
Open Access | Y |
Open Access Link | https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2020/04/07/1918249117.full.pdf |
JEL | J31, D63 |
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- People
- Hajdu, Gergely (Details)
- External
- Avent-Holt, Dustin (Augusta University, United States/USA)
- Bandelj, Nina (University of California, Irvine, United States/USA)
- Boza, István (Central European University, Hungary)
- Cort, David (University of Massachusetts, United States/USA)
- Folke Henriksen, Lasse (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
- Godechot, Olivier (Sciences Po, France)
- Hällsten, Martin (Stockholm University, Sweden)
- Hou, Feng (Statistics Canada, Canada)
- Jung, Jiwook (University of Illinois, United States/USA)
- Kanjuo-Mrcela, Aleksandra (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
- King, Joe (Institute for Defense Analyses, United States/USA)
- Kodama, Naomi (Nihon University, Japan)
- Kristal, Tali (University of Haifa, Israel)
- Krízková, Alena (Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
- Lippényi, Zoltán (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
- Maja Melzer, Silvia (University of Barcelona, Spain)
- Mun, Eunmi (University of Illinois, United States/USA)
- Penner, Andrew (University of California, United States/USA)
- Petersen, Trond (University of California, Berkeley, United States/USA)
- Poje, Andreja (Association of Free Trade Unions of Slovenia, Slovenia)
- Rainey, Anthony (University of Massachusetts, United States/USA)
- Safi, Mirna (Sciences Po, France)
- Skeie Hermansen, Are (University of Oslo, Finland)
- Thaning, Max (Stockholm University, Sweden)
- Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald (University of Massachusetts, United States/USA)
- Tufail, Zaibu (University of California, Irvine, United States/USA)
- Organization
- Department of Economics (Sausgruber) (Details)
- Research areas (ÖSTAT Classification 'Statistik Austria')
- 5339 Economic analyses (Details)
- 5407 Ethics and social sciences (Details)