Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20620 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1350
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines changes in the distribution of wages using bounds to allow for the impact of non-random selection into work. We show that bounds constructed without any economic or statistical assumptions can be informative. However, since employment rates in the UK are often low they are not informative about changes in educational or gender wage differentials. Thus we explore ways to tighten these bounds using restrictions motivated from economic theory. With these assumptions we find convincing evidence of an increase in inequality within education groups, changes in the ?return? to education and increases in the relative wages of women.
Subjects: 
wage differentials
selection models
bounds
JEL: 
J31
C24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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