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  LABOURVolume 22 Issue s1, Pages 7 - 26 Special Issue: The Evolution of Labour Market Inequalities Published Online: 28 May 2008 © 2009 CEIS, Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini and Blackwell Publishing Ltd Published on behalf of CEIS and Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini, Rome
Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 285K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  An Appraisal of Economic Research on Changes in Wage Inequality This paper is my invited lecture to the 2007 Association of Italian Labour Economists, held in Naples in September 2007. I would like to thank Lorenzo Cappellari, Mirko Draca, and Marco Leonardi for some helpful comments. I would also like to thank some of my co-authors (especially John Van Reenen in Machin and Van Reenen, 2008) in research to do with changes in wage inequality for their help in the joint research I draw upon and reproduce at various stages in the paper. Copyright Journal compilation © 2008 CEIS, Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. ABSTRACTAbstract. In this paper (based on my invited lecture to the 2007 Association of Italian Labour Economists) I offer an appraisal of the large economic literature on changes in wage inequality. I describe the origins of the recent work, the sizable body of research trying to understand national and international differences, and discuss the directions in which more recent work has moved. The paper concludes with the observation that, for a number of reasons, research that tries to better understand changing patterns of wage inequality (especially in a cross-country context) is likely to remain high on the research agenda of empirical labour economists. | 
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