Wage Inequality and the Rise in Returns to Skill

Changes in Wage Structure in Mexico Going Beyond the Mean: An Analysis of Differences in Distribution, 1987-2008

“…The most influential analyses of income decomposition using Mincerian equations include the early studies of Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) and the later work of Juhn, Murphy andPierce (1993). Fortin et al (2011) provide an interesting overview of decomposition methods that have been developed since the seminal work of Oaxaca and Blinder in the early 1970s.…”

Changes in the distribution of house prices over time: Structural characteristics, neighborhood, or coefficients?

“…Many researchers have noted that earnings have risen more rapidly for high-income workers, causing the distribution of earnings to have become more unequal over time (e.g., Buchinsky (1994Buchinsky ( , 1998a; Dickey (2007) ;Gosling, Machin, and Meghir (2000); Juhn, Murphy, and Pierce (1993); Katz and Murphy (1992); Martins and Pereira (2004)). …”

State Transfers, Taxes and Income Inequality in Brazil

“…Second, the characteristics of the public sector workers may also be different. To estimate these counterfactual wages, we resorted to the decomposition proposed by Juhn, Murphy, and Pierce (JMP), which allowed us to isolate the differential effects of coefficients (prices), observed characteristics (quantities) and residual effects using linear regressions (JUHN, MURPHY and PIERCE, 1993). First, we estimated a wage equation for the reference group, the public sector workers, and an equation for the equivalent group, the private sector workers.…”