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Past Trends in Income Inequality Past Trends in Income Inequality
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Comparing the Experiences of Lucky, Big Bob, and Little Larry Comparing the Experiences of Lucky, Big Bob, and Little Larry
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A Pictorial Summary of Model Results A Pictorial Summary of Model Results
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6 Effects of Relative Cohort Size on Inequality and the Overall Structure of Wages
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Published:May 2002
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Abstract
This chapter analyzes the wages at all age levels throughout the workforce. It tries to identify whether the age structure of the population has had a significant effect on the primary dimensions of inequality in the United States over the last thirty-five years: on the return to experience, the return to skill, hours and weeks worked, and on the general structure of wages and level of inequality. Changing relative cohort size can explain a significant proportion of the variation over time in measures of work intensity, such as hours and weeks worked and the proportion working full time, at all levels of experience. Cohort size effects—on wages, unemployment, and hours and weeks worked—have occurred not just among younger workers, but throughout the labor force. Furthermore, changing relative cohort size has been a major factor increasing all types of inequality in the society over the past few decades.
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