Walras–Bowley Lecture: Market Power and Wage Inequality

IF 6.6 1区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Econometrica Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI:10.3982/ECTA21157

Shubhdeep Deb, Jan Eeckhout, Aseem Patel, Lawrence Warren

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Abstract

We propose a theory of how market power affects wage inequality. We ask how goods and labor market power jointly determine the level of wages, the skill premium, and wage inequality. We then use detailed microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau between 1997 and 2016 to estimate the parameters of labor supply, technology, and the market structure. We find that a less competitive market structure lowers the average wage of high-skilled workers by 11.3%, and of low-skilled workers by 12.2%, contributes 8.1% to the rise in the skill premium, and accounts for 54.8% of the increase in between-establishment wage variance.

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瓦尔拉斯-鲍利讲座：市场力量与工资不平等

我们提出了市场力量如何影响工资不平等的理论。我们询问商品和劳动力市场力量如何共同决定工资水平、技能溢价和工资不平等。然后，我们利用美国人口普查局 1997 年至 2016 年间的详细微观数据，对劳动力供给、技术和市场结构的参数进行了估计。我们发现，竞争性较弱的市场结构将高技能工人的平均工资降低了 11.3%，将低技能工人的平均工资降低了 12.2%，对技能溢价上升的贡献率为 8.1%，并占机构间工资差异增长的 54.8%。

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Econometrica 社会科学-数学跨学科应用

CiteScore

11.00

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3.30%

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审稿时长

6-12 weeks

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