Two Decades of Rising U.S. Inequality: Who or What is to Blame?
Prof. David Autor
Thu Jan 22, 10-11:30am, E51-145
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
After two decades of rapid growth, earnings inequality in the United States is at a post-WWII high. This talk will advance and critique three leading economic explanations for this explosion of inequality: falling minimum wages, shifts in labor supply, and changes in skill demand associated with the "computer revolution."
Contact: Theresa Benevento, E52-356, x3-8883, theresa@mit.edu
Sponsor: Economics
Latest update: 28-Oct-2003
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