Changes in relative wages in the 1980s: Returns to observed and unobserved skills and black-white wage differentials

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-38

  Chay, Kenneth Y ^a   Lee, David S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Changing wage inequality; Error components models of earnings differentials; Time varying ability biases

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347948992     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4076(00)00029-4     Document Type: Article

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