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Article: Earnings and employment trends in the 1990s.
- Article from:
- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 2000
- Author:
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Robust employment growth in high- and low-paying job categories was not accompanied by large wage gains; there was no apparent increase in overall earnings dispersion during the 1990s
Earnings have long been considered an important measure of one's economic well-being, and it is widely accepted that increased earnings over time result in improved living standards. In the United States, real earnings rose sharply for several decades after World War II, but the trend slowed abruptly during the 1970s. Although the picture during the 1980s and much of the 1990s is less clear because of different patterns among the major earnings measures, it is safe to say that there ...