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UK Wage Inequality: An Industry and Regional Perspective
Author(s) -
Taylor Karl
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2006.00335.x
Subject(s) - wage inequality , inequality , productivity , economics , wage , globalization , perspective (graphical) , labour economics , demographic economics , immigration , population , economic growth , sociology , geography , demography , market economy , mathematical analysis , mathematics , archaeology , artificial intelligence , computer science
. This paper looks at male wage inequality in the UK across industries and regions over a 15 year period. After controlling for the heterogeneity of productivity characteristics across the population, that part of wage inequality which cannot be explained by observable worker characteristics is examined. This is undertaken at both the industry and regional level to assess the key themes dominant in the literature capable of explaining within‐group wage inequality, namely: technology; globalization; female participation; immigration; shifts in the supply of relative education across cohorts; and falling unionization.