Full Citation

Title: Industry Localisation and Earnings Inequality: Evidence from US Manufacturing

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2007

ISBN:

ISSN:

DOI:

NSFID:

PMCID:

PMID:

Abstract: While the productivity gains associated with the geographic concentration of industry (i.e., localisation) are by now well-documented, little work has considered how those gains are distributed across individual workers. This article offers evidence on the connection between total employment and the relative wage earnings of high- and low-skill workers (i.e., inequality) within two-digit manufacturing industries across the states, and a collection of metropolitan areas in the U.S. between 1970 and 1990. Using measures of overall, between-education-group and residual inequality, I find that wage dispersion falls significantly as industry employment expands.

User Submitted?: No

Authors: Wheeler, Christopher H.

Periodical (Full): Papers in Regional Science

Issue: 1

Volume: 86

Pages: 77-100

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

Countries: