Corporate Restructuring and Rising Wage Inequality in U.S. Urban Labor Markets, 1970-2000

该项目调查了过去三十年来收入不平等的加剧是否可以部分解释为企业重组的增长。 公司内部的工作阶梯可能由于下列变化而被削弱：就业外包的增长、公共部门工作的私有化、服务业的放松管制、合并以及权力平衡向股东转移而从管理人员转移。 这项研究将通过使用十年一次的人口普查数据比较1970年至2000年115个城市的收入不平等变化来测试这些结构调整变化的重要性。 公司重组的变化（例如，分包行业的增加）预计将与四个面板中工资不平等的增加相关。

This project investigates whether the rise in income inequality over the last three decades can be explained in part by the growth of corporate restructuring. Internal job ladders within firms may have been weakened by changes such as the growth of out-sourcing of employment, privatization of public sector work, the de-regulation of service industries, mergers, and a shift in the balance of power towards shareholders and away from managers. The research will test the importance of these restructuring changes by comparing changes in earnings inequality across 115 cities between 1970 and 2000 using decennial Census data. Changes in corporate restructuring (e.g., increases in subcontracting industries) are expected to be correlated with increases in wage inequality across the four panels.