Intermetropolitan Wage Disparities and Industrial Change
利用美国劳工统计局地区工资调查的时薪数据，研究了经济重构时期美国工资地理格局的变化，发现区域间实际工资差异并未缩小，而区域内工资差异增大，尤其是中北部地区。
This paper examines the changing regional geography of wages within the United States during the recent period of economic and employment restructuring. Economic restructuring has been accompanied by widespread attempts to reduce direct wage costs and, more generally, by a realignment of labor relations away from union negotiated wage agreements. We investigate the geography of wage change, using hourly wage data drawn from Bureau of Labor Statistics' Area Wage Surveys. Our analysis provides little evidence of an erosion of real wage differentials at the scale of census regions. Rather, the tendency is towards increasing intraregional variance in wages, especially within the north central United States, reflecting the geographically uneven effects of restructuring within regions.