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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald
• Rainey, Anthony
• Avent-Holt, Dustin
• Bandelj, Nina
• Boza, István
• Cort, David
• Godechot, Olivier
• Hajdu, Gergely
• Hällsten, Martin
• Henriksen, Lasse Folke
• Hermansen, Are Skeie
• Hou, Feng
• Jung, Jiwook
• Kanjuo-Mrčela, Aleksandra
• King, Joe
• Kodama, Naomi
• Kristal, Tali
• Karíazková, Alena
• Lippényi, Zoltán
• Melzer, Silvia Maja
• Mun, Eunmi
• Penner, Andrew
• Petersen, Trond
• Poje, Andreja
• Safi, Mirna
• Thaning, Max
• Tufail, Zaibu

Titel

Rising between-workplace inequalities in high-income countries

Ist Teil von

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2020-04, Vol.117 (17), p.9277-9283

Ort / Verlag

United States: National Academy of Sciences

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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.