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Declining Wages for High School and College Graduates. Pay and Benefits Trends by Education, Gender, Occupation, and State, 1979-1991. Briefing Paper.

Mishel, Lawrence; Bernstein, Jared – 1992

Wage analyses of several government surveys suggest that substantial, broad-based reductions in real wages occurred in the final years of the 1980s recovery. (Data sources are the hourly compensation data from the Employment Cost Index series and wage data from the Current Population Survey.) The wages of those who lost the most in the 1980s (high…

Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, College Graduates, Compensation (Remuneration), Educational Background