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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

The State of Working America, 1994-95.

Mishel, Lawrence; Bernstein, Jared – 1995

Numerous sources of data about family incomes, taxes, wages, unemployment, wealth, and poverty were used to analyze the impact of the economy on living standards in the United States in 1994-1995. It was discovered that most individuals in the United States are worse off in the 1990s than they were at the end of the 1970s. Between 1979 and 1989,…

Descriptors: Business Cycles, Comparative Analysis, Economic Change, Economic Factors