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Title: Essays on the economics of inequality
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2013
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Abstract: This dissertation looks at three aspects of inequality within labor markets: wage inequality, intergenerational economic mobility, and inequality in higher education between sexes. The first chapter examines the contribution of offshoring to the relative decline in the wages paid to middle skilled workers. Within a task based model of production, I develop a theoretical framework that demonstrates how increased offshoring is consistent with a decline in domestic employment and a reduction in the wages paid to workers in middle skilled occupations. I test these predictions empirically using a proxy measure of offshoring. I find that industries which engage in offshoring see their domestic employment decline over time and have a wider gap between the wages of their middle and high skilled workers. Current levels of industry offshoring are significantly correlated with an industry’s lagged occupational composition. Both material and service offshoring decrease with the share of manual occupations and service offshoring increases with the share of routine occupations. Chapter two estimates the magnitude of the intergenerational . . .
Url: https://open.bu.edu/bitstream/handle/2144/14120/Kroeger_bu_0017E_10157.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
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Authors: Kroeger, Sarah Anne
Institution: Boston University
Department: Economics
Advisor: Daniele Paserman
Degree: PhD
Publisher Location: Boston, Massachusetts
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Education, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other
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