THE CHANGING DISTRIBUTION OF EARNINGS IN OECD COUNTRIES by A. B. Atkinson ( 9780199532438 )

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THE CHANGING DISTRIBUTION OF EARNINGS IN OECD COUNTRIES

By:

A. B. Atkinson

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0199532435

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Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 May, 2008

Series:

The Rodolfo De Benedetti Lecture Series

Pages:

512

Description:

This book examines what people are paid and how pay differences have changed over time. The author presents new theories that challenge current thinking on the impact of education, technology, globalization and the rigidity of labour markets. Beginning with an accessible introduction, it then provides a model and new empirical data for 20 countries

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This book is about how much people earn and why the distribution of earnings has been changing over time. The gap between the top and bottom in the United States has widened significantly since 1980. Why has this happened? Is it due to new technologies? What is the role of globalisation? Are there historical precedents? The book begins with the "race" between technology and education, and shows that continuing technical progress does not necessarily imply a continuing rise in dispersion. It then examines the experience of 20 OECD countries over the twentieth century, material presented in the form of 20 country case studies. The book breaks new ground in assembling data on the distribution of individual earnings covering much of the twentieth century and drawing on a variety of under-exploited sources. The findings overturn a number of widely-held beliefs. It is not the earnings of the low paid that have been most affected by the recent changes; widening is largely due to what is happening at the top. The recent rise in earnings dispersion is not unprecedented, but should be seen as part of a longer-run history of successive compression and expansion of earnings differences.

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Oxford University Press

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