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" Rising between-workplace inequalities in high-income countries. "
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; Křížková, Alena; et al.
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912294
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LA5c46178w
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Rising between-workplace inequalities in high-income countries. [Article]\ 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; Křížková, Alena; et al.
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2020
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UC Irvine
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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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