Rising between-workplace inequalities in high-income countries.

ABSTRACT: It is well documented that earnings inequalities have risen in many high-income countries. Less clear are the linkages between rising income inequality and workplace dynamics, how within- and between-workplace inequality varies across countries, and to what extent these inequalities are moderated by national labor market institutions. In order to describe changes in the initial between- and within-firm market income distribution we analyze administrative records for 2,000,000,000+ job years nested within 50,000,000+ workplace years for 14 high-income countries in North America, Scandinavia, Continental and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia. We find that countries vary a great deal in their levels and trends in earnings inequality but that the between-workplace share of wage in

SUBMITTER: Tomaskovic-Devey D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7196797 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature