00000nam 2200000za 4500 9.850530 CaOODSP 20221107154156 cr ||||||||||| 180123s2017 oncd obs f000 0 eng d CaOODSP eng eng fre n-us--- FB3-5/2017-61E-PDF Lochner, Lance. Wage dynamics and returns to unobserved skill [electronic resource] / by Lance Lochner, Youngmin Park and Youngki Shin. [Ottawa] : Bank of Canada, 2017. ii, 47, [14] p. : charts (some col.) Bank of Canada staff working paper, 1701-9397 ; 2017-61 "December 2017." Includes bibliographical references (p. 42-47). “Economists disagree about the factors driving the substantial increase in residual wage inequality in the U.S. over the past few decades. We identify and estimate a general model of log wage residuals that incorporates: changing returns to unobserved skills, a changing distribution of unobserved skills, and changing volatility in wages due to factors unrelated to skills. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we estimate that the returns to unobserved skills have declined by as much as 50% since the mid-1980s despite a sizeable increase in residual inequality. Instead, the variance of skills rose over this period because of increasing variability in lifecycle skill growth. Finally, we develop an assignment model of the labor market and show that both demand and supply factors contributed to the downward trend in the returns to skills over time, with demand factors dominating for non-college men"--Abstract, p. ii. Includes abstract in French. gccst Salaries gccst Skills gccst Statistical analysis Park, Youngmin. Shin, Youngki. Bank of Canada. Staff working paper (Bank of Canada) 1701-9397 ; 2017-61 (CaOODSP)9.806221 PDF 734 KB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2018/banque-bank-canada/FB3-5-2017-61-eng.pdf