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dc.contributor.authorSalvanes, Kjell Gunnar
dc.contributor.authorFaggio, Giulia
dc.contributor.authorReenen, John Van
dc.date.accessioned2007-11-05T11:30:40Z
dc.date.available2007-11-05T11:30:40Z
dc.date.issued2007-08
dc.identifier.issn0804-6824
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/163316
dc.description.abstractThere has been a remarkable increase in wage inequality in the US, UK and many other countries over the past three decades. A significant part of this appears to be within observable groups (such as age-gender-skill cells). A generally untested implication of many theories rationalizing the growth of within-group inequality is that firm-level productivity dispersion should also have increased. Since the relevant data do not exist in the US we utilize a UK longitudinal panel dataset covering the manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors since the early 1980s. We find evidence that productivity inequality has increased. Existing studies have underestimated this phenomenon because they use manufacturing data where which has shrunk rapidly. Most of the increase in individual wage inequality has occurred because of an increase in inequality between firms (and within industries). Increased productivity dispersion appears to be linked with new technologies as suggested by models such as Caselli (1999) and is not primarily due to an increase in transitory shocks, greater sorting or entry/exit dynamics.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherNorwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Department of Economicsen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDiscussion paperen
dc.relation.ispartofseries2007:19en
dc.subjectwage inequalityen
dc.subjectproductivity dispersionen
dc.subjecttechnologyen
dc.titleThe evolution of inequality in productivity and wages : panel data evidenceen
dc.typeWorking paperen
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Økonomi: 210::Samfunnsøkonomi: 212en


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