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This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained. Finally, it considers the implications of organizational change as a possible rationale for recent inequality developments.

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Paper provided by C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers in its series CEPR Discussion Papers with number 2321.

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Keywords: Earnings; Education; Globalization; Income Distribution; Inequality; Labour Supply; Minimum Wage; Organizational Change; Skilled and Unskilled Workers; Technological Change; Unionization; Wage Rigidities;

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1. Strand, Jon, 2003. "The decline or expansion of unions: a bargaining model with heterogeneous labor," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 19(2), pages 317-340, June.

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