How shifting occupational composition has affected the real average wage

Monthly Labor Review

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 26-38

  Keller, Rebecca ^a  

^a BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

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References (8)

1. The adjustment for inflation was made using the BLS Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers.
2. Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra, "The Labor Market Effects Of Rising Health Insurance Premiums," Journal of Labor Economics, July 2006, pp. 609-34.
3. John Jones, "What do OES data have to say about increasing wage inequality?" Monthly Labor Review, June 2009, pp. 39-49.
4. OES statistics cover part-time and full-time wage and salary workers, and do not cover the self-employed, owners and partners in unincorporated firms, household workers, or unpaid family workers.
5. The common coding system is the 2002 OES occupational coding structure.
6. Mean wages for November 2002 have been adjusted for inflation to May 2007 dollars. All wages are discussed in terms of May 2007 dollars.
7. Patrick Kilcoyne, "The Role of Occupational Composition in State Wage Differentials," Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2005, Bulletin 2585 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2007).
8. David H. Autor, Lawrence F. Katz, and Melissa S. Kearney, "The Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market," American Economic Review, May 2006, pp. 189-194.