Taking the Sector Seriously: Data, Developments, and Drivers of Intrasectoral Earnings Inequality

doi:10.1007/s11205-017-1677-2

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	Taking the Sector Seriously: Data, Developments, and Drivers of Intrasectoral Earnings Inequality
	Thewissen, Stefan 1,2; van Vliet, Olaf 3; Wang, Chen 4
刊名	SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH
	2018-08
卷号	138 期号:3 页码:1023-1048
关键词	Inequality Wage bargaining Globalisation Technological change
ISSN号	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-017-1677-2
英文摘要	The widespread increase in earnings inequality within postindustrial countries has received a lot of attention in both the public debate and the academic literature. Remarkably, the developments in earnings inequality have mainly been studied at the country level, whereas there is substantial variation across sectors within countries. This study explores the developments and the drivers of earnings inequality at the sectoral level. From an empirical perspective, this study aims to contribute to the inequality literature by analyzing measures of sectoral earnings inequality. The study relies on newly assembled data based on Luxembourg Income Study micro data for eleven sectors across eight countries over the past few decades. As a theoretical contribution, the study examines the three key explanations for increasing earnings inequality that have been debated and analysed by economists, sociologists and political scientists-namely, globalisation, technological change and waning labour union power-but this time with sectoral earnings inequality data. Interestingly, the results provide only limited support for the argument that international trade leads to higher levels of earnings inequality. When we focus the analysis on trade with less developed countries we find a positive association between trade and earnings inequality. With regard to technological change, our findings provide mixed evidence for the hypothesis that skill-biased technological change increases earnings inequality. Our results bring back the waning country-wide labour union power as an important driver of earnings inequality. This corresponds with the fact that our sectoral data reveal a more general trend towards rising inequality across sectors over time.
WOS研究方向	Social Sciences - Other Topics ; Sociology
语种	英语
出版者	SPRINGER
WOS记录号	WOS:000438558600008
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://10.2.47.112/handle/2XS4QKH4/559]
专题	上海财经大学
通讯作者	Thewissen, Stefan
作者单位	1.Univ Oxford, Oxford Martin Sch, Inst New Econ Thinking, Dept Social Policy & Intervent, Oxford, England; 2.Univ Oxford, Oxford Martin Sch, Nuffield Coll, Inst New Econ Thinking, Oxford, England; 3.Leiden Univ, Dept Econ, Leiden, Netherlands; 4.Shanghai Univ Finance & Econ, Sch Urban & Reg Sci, Shanghai, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Thewissen, Stefan,van Vliet, Olaf,Wang, Chen. Taking the Sector Seriously: Data, Developments, and Drivers of Intrasectoral Earnings Inequality[J]. SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH,2018,138(3):1023-1048.
APA	Thewissen, Stefan,van Vliet, Olaf,&Wang, Chen.(2018).Taking the Sector Seriously: Data, Developments, and Drivers of Intrasectoral Earnings Inequality.SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH,138(3),1023-1048.
MLA	Thewissen, Stefan,et al."Taking the Sector Seriously: Data, Developments, and Drivers of Intrasectoral Earnings Inequality".SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH 138.3(2018):1023-1048.