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The Evolution of Unobserved Skill Returns in the U.S.: A New Approach Using Panel Data

Staff Working Paper 2017-61 Lance Lochner, Youngmin Park, Youngki Shin
Economists disagree about the factors driving the substantial increase in residual wage inequality in the United States over the past few decades. To identify changes in the returns to unobserved skills, we make a novel assumption about the dynamics of skills (especially among older workers) rather than about the stability of skill distributions across cohorts, as is standard.

Peter P. Dhillon

Peter P. Dhillon was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Bank of Canada in December 2017.
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