Training and the Growth of Wage Inequality

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: A JOURNAL OF ECONOMY AND SOCIETY, Vol. 35, No. 4, October 1996

Posted: 7 May 1998

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Jill Constantine

Williams College

David Neumark

University of California, Irvine - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); IZA Institute of Labor Economics

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Abstract

Shifts in the incidence of training over the 1980s favored more-educated, more-experienced workers. These shifts, coupled with increases in returns to skill, suggest that training may have contributed to the growth of between-group wage inequality in this period. However, because i) the shifts in training were too small, and ii) the returns to training did not rise, only small fractions of the increases in returns to schooling and experience over this period can be explained by changes in the distribution of or returns to training.

JEL Classification: J24, J31

Suggested Citation

Constantine, Jill and Neumark, David, Training and the Growth of Wage Inequality. INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: A JOURNAL OF ECONOMY AND SOCIETY, Vol. 35, No. 4, October 1996, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3167

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