Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages: The Role of Spillover Effects
研究了1979至2017年间美国最低工资的溢出效应和工会化的威胁效应对工资不平等变化的影响，发现威胁效应使去工会化对男性工资不平等增加的贡献翻倍，溢出效应使最低工资下降对女性工资分布底端不平等增加的解释力达到三分之二。
This paper examines the role of spillover effects of minimum wages and threat effects of unionization in changes in wage inequality in the United States between 1979 and 2017. A distribution regression framework is introduced to estimate both types of spillover effects. Threat effects double the contribution of deunionization to the increase in male wage inequality. Spillover effects magnify the explanatory power of declining minimum wages to two-thirds of the increase in inequality at the bottom end of the female wage distribution.