Manufacturing Jobs and Inequality : Why is the U.S. Experience Different? /

We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may have contributed to increasing inequality in advanced economies. This contribution is typically small, except in the United States. We explore two possible explanations: the high initial manufacturing wage premium and the high lev...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Novta, Natalija
Other Authors: Pugacheva, Evgenia
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/191
Online Access:Full text available on IMF