TY  - JOUR
AU  - Constantine,Jill
AU  - Neumark,David
TI  - Training and the Growth of Wage Inequality
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 4729
PY  - 1994
Y2  - May 1994
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4729
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4729.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Jill Constantine
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
POB 2393
Princeton, NJ 08543
E-Mail: jconstantine@mathematica-mpr.com

David Neumark
Department of Economics
University of California at Irvine
3151 Social Science Plaza
Irvine, CA  92697
Tel: 949-824-8496
Fax: 949/824-2182
E-Mail: dneumark@uci.edu
AB  - Shifts in the incidence of various types of training over the 1980s favored more-educated, more-experienced workers.  Coupled with the fact that this training is associated with higher wages, these shifts suggest that training may have contributed to the growth of wage inequality in this period.  However, the shifts were apparently too small, or the returns to training too low, for training to have played a substantial role in this increase.  The estimated changes in wage differentials associated with schooling and experience are at best only slightly smaller once we account for changes in the distribution of training across schooling and experience groups, as well as changes in the returns to training and in the length of training programs.
ER  -