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The role of jobs in explaining UK wage inequality

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  • Luke Heath Milsom
  • Shihang Hou

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Previous work that seeks to decompose wage variance into worker and firm components often ends in a puzzle: sorting between firms and workers explains a large fraction of the log wage variance but firm differences are only a small component.

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  • Luke Heath Milsom & Shihang Hou, 2021. "The role of jobs in explaining UK wage inequality," Economics Series Working Papers 939, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:oxf:wpaper:939
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