Econometrica

Journal Of The Econometric Society

An International Society for the Advancement of Economic
Theory in its Relation to Statistics and Mathematics

Edited by: Guido W. Imbens • Print ISSN: 0012-9682 • Online ISSN: 1468-0262

Econometrica: Mar, 2007, Volume 75, Issue 2

Changes in the Distribution of Male and Female Wages Accounting for Employment Composition Using Bounds

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0262.2006.00750.x
p. 323-363

Richard Blundell, Amanda Gosling, Hidehiko Ichimura, Costas Meghir

This paper examines changes in the distribution of wages using bounds to allow for the impact of nonrandom selection into work. We show that worst case bounds can be informative. However, because employment rates in the United Kingdom are often low, they are not informative about changes in educational or gender wage differentials. Thus we explore ways to tighten these bounds using restrictions motivated from economic theory. With these assumptions, we find convincing evidence of an increase in inequality within education groups, changes in educational differentials, and increases in the relative wages of women.


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