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Antifar
11/13/23 8:03:31 PM
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https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w31010/w31010.pdf
Labor market tightness following the height of the Covid-19 pandemic led to an unexpected compression in the US wage distribution that reflects, in part, an increase in labor market competition. Rapid relative wage growth at the bottom of the distribution reduced the college wage premium and counteracted nearly 40% of the four-decade increase in aggregate 90-10 log wage inequality. Wage compression was accompanied by rapid nominal wage growth and rising job-to-job separationsespecially among young non-college (high school or less) workers. Comparing across states, post-pandemic labor market tightness became strongly predictive of real wage growth among low-wage workers (wage-Phillips curve), and aggregate wage compression. Simultaneously, the wage-separation elasticitya key measure of labor market competition rose among young non-college workers, with wage gains concentrated among workers who changed employers. Seen through the lens of a canonical job ladder model, the pandemic increased the elasticity of labor supply to firms in the low-wage labor market, reducing employer market power and spurring rapid relative wage growth among young noncollege workers who disproportionately moved from lower-paying to higher-paying and potentially more-productive jobs

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Doom_Art
11/13/23 8:07:46 PM
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That's... good?

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The_Popo
11/13/23 8:10:26 PM
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Doom_Art posted...
That's... good?

The wage inequality contains potassium benzoate.

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Irony
11/13/23 8:11:42 PM
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Doom_Art posted...
That's... good?
Both genders are now equally paid too little

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Antifar
11/13/23 8:12:38 PM
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Doom_Art posted...
That's... good?
Yes, but also it also explains to some extent why coverage of "the economy" has been so negative. A lot of media and discourse is downstream from
a. people at the 90th percentile
b. people who don't like that restaurant workers have better options available to them

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DarthAragorn
11/13/23 8:13:00 PM
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Only like 99% of the way to go!

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Doom_Art
11/13/23 8:19:30 PM
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The_Popo posted...
The wage inequality contains potassium benzoate.
That's bad

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FL81
11/16/23 10:57:12 PM
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So, no K-shaped recovery after all?

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