The Rise of Intra-Occupational Wage Inequality in the United States, 1983 to 2002

Kim, ChangHwan; Sakamoto, Arthur

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“…Inequality has gone up for blacks and whites (Bayer and Charles 2016), men and women, high school and college graduates, and people across many age ranges (Lemieux 2006). It has also grown within occupations (Kim and Sakamoto 2008) and within family types (Martin 2006;Western et al 2008). Though the changes vary in size for different social groups, this broad footprint suggests that the growth of income inequality is truly one nationwide trend and not a series of separate stratification processes.…”

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Income Inequality and the Persistence of Racial Economic Disparities

Manduca¹

2018

SocScience

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More than 50 years after the Civil Rights Act, black-white family income disparities in the United States remain almost exactly the same as what they were in 1968. This article argues that a key and underappreciated driver of the racial income gap has been the national trend of rising income inequality. From 1968 to 2016, black-white disparities in family income rank narrowed by almost one-third. But this relative gain was negated by changes to the national income distribution that resulted in rapid income growth for the richest-and most disproportionately white-few percentiles of the country combined with income stagnation for the poor and middle class. But for the rise in income inequality, the median black-white family income gap would have decreased by about 30 percent. Conversely, without the partial closing of the rank gap, growing inequality alone would have increased the racial income gap by 30 percent.

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Section: Extent and Sources Of Rising Income Inequalitymentioning

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Income Inequality and the Persistence of Racial Economic Disparities

Manduca¹

2018

SocScience

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“…Occupations are treated as longitudinal units and their growth rates in their size, mean log wages, 5 For full details this analytical strategy, see Kim and Sakamoto (2008) and see Singer (1998). First, an unconditional model was estimated with time as its only independent variable.…”

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“…Although "possibly the most striking phenomenon in the British labour market […] has been the massive rise in wage inequality" (Dickens 2000:27), relatively little is known about the relationship between occupations and growing British wage inequality, unlike for the United States where a small literature has recently sprung up directly tackling the issue (Weeden, Kim et al 2007;Kim and Sakamoto 2008;Mouw and Kalleberg 2010). In what follows, we revisit the well-known take-off in British wage inequality and provide a detailed descriptive account of its relationship to the changing occupational structure to systematically establish the basic facts.…”

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Occupations and British Wage Inequality, 1970s-2000s

Williams¹

2012

European Sociological Review

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Occupations provide a central unit of analysis for economic inequality in stratification research for two main reasons. First, occupations are supposed to structure inequality. Second, occupations are supposed to proxy as a source of inequality. Although there was a 'massive rise' in British wage inequality, relatively little is known about the relationship between the occupations and growing British wage inequality, and the sparse empirical research is inconclusive. Since sociologists traditionally have tended to place a great deal of emphasis on occupations, we might expect the changing structure of occupations and changing occupational wages to play a key role in accounting for trends in overall British wage inequality. More recent strands of stratification theory, however, have challenged the idea that occupations structure economic inequalities, and argue that the link between occupations and wages might have been weakening over time, instead predicting that growing wage inequality mostly occurs within occupations. We decompose trends in British wage inequality into between-occupation and within-occupation components and show that, although most wage inequality is within occupations, it is inequality between occupations that accounts for the lion's share of changes in wage inequality trends. Furthermore, trends in between-occupation inequality cannot be 'explained away' by fundamental labour market changes such as rising educational attainment and the decline in collective bargaining. We also demonstrate what the rise in between-occupation inequality implies for the British 'big class' structure using the NS-SEC social class schema. We show that growing between-occupation inequality can be more or less described as growing between-class inequality. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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“…Los índices corroboran la tendencia creciente de la desigualdad salarial a través del tiempo, aunque algunas investigaciones (Kim y Sakamoto, 2008) El análisis por sexo revela que sólo en 1980 el coeficiente de Gini fue mayor entre las mujeres; en tanto que el índice de Theil muestra la misma tendencia. A juzgar por estos indicadores, las desigualdades salariales a lo largo del periodo estudiado fueron mayores entre los hombres.…”

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“…La desigualdad salarial en Estados Unidos, que hasta 1970 mantuvo una tendencia descendente, en 1980 creció precipitadamente y se ha sostenido a lo largo de las últi-mas décadas (Kim y Sakamoto, 2008). En 1980, el índice de Gini estadunidense alcanzaba un valor aproximado del 41 por ciento y en 2010 ascendió al 47 por ciento.…”

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Wage Inequalities among Latin American Migrants and U.S.-Born Workers (1980-2010)

R.¹

2015

Norteamérica

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resumenAquí se examina la desigualdad salarial en los trabajadores de Estados Unidos entre 1980-2010. Se analizan las diferencias salariales según sexo, lugar de origen y tipo de ocupación. En general, las diferencias salariales entre hombres y mujeres, y entre nativos e inmigrantes se mantienen a través del tiempo y aumentan en los dos casos. Se observa mayor concentración del ingreso entre los hombres que entre las mujeres. Asimismo, la desigualdad salarial aumentó en 2010 con la crisis económica, sobre todo en ciertos grupos; en los nativos blancos no hispanos hay más concentración del ingreso y la desigualad es menor en las ocupaciones más calificadas.Palabras clave: Desigualdad salarial, inmigrantes latinoamericanos y caribeños, mercado de trabajo, Estados Unidos. AbstrActThis article examines wage disparities among U.S. workers between 1980 and 2010. The author analyzes wage differences by sex, place of origin, and type of job. In general, wage differences between men and women and the native-born and immigrants persist over time and increase in both cases. There is a greater concentration of earnings among men than among women.Wage inequality increased in 2010 with the economic crisis, above all in certain groups: nonHispanic white native-born workers concentrate more income, whereas inequality is less among jobs requiring higher qualifications.

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The Rise of Intra-Occupational Wage Inequality in the United States, 1983 to 2002

Cited by 149 publications

References 61 publications

Income Inequality and the Persistence of Racial Economic Disparities

Income Inequality and the Persistence of Racial Economic Disparities

Occupations and British Wage Inequality, 1970s-2000s

Wage Inequalities among Latin American Migrants and U.S.-Born Workers (1980-2010)

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