TY - JOUR
AU - Bluestone, Barry
AB - Cambridge Journal of Economics 1990,14,351-373 Wag e poIsuriLsaitiioffii Isa ttllae U S amud tlhe Bennett Harrison and Barry Bluestone* There has been a continuing debate in the U S over whether the American distribution of labour income has become more unequal since the mid-1970s. In particular, the question arises as to whether the distribution of individual annual wage and salary incomes (WSI) has been polarising, with the density of the lower tail increasing more rapidly than that of the upper tail, both at the expense of the middle. The first objective of this paper is to bring together much of the new empirical evidence that bears on the question of the trajectory of wage dispersion, drawing principally on data from the US . We shall demonstrate that this evidence produces a strong case in favour of the polarisation hypothesis. Furthermore, it shows that conventional business cycle and demographic explanations for increasing inequality are quite insufficient to account for the magnitude of this development. The second objective is to pursue an altogether different line of inquiry concerning the polarisation of earnings, one that explains growing inequality in U S labour income by the appearance of recent 'innovations' in management practices. 
TI - Wage polarisation in the US and the ‘flexibility’ debate
JF - Cambridge Journal of Economics
DO - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a035140
DA - 1990-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/wage-polarisation-in-the-us-and-the-flexibility-debate-4zvbkuNTFn
SP - 351
EP - 373
VL - 14
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -