Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Revising the Revisionists
David H. Autor, Lawrence F. Katz and Melissa S. Kearney
May 2008, Review of Economics and Statistics

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Figure 1. Change in Log Real Weekly Wage by Percentile, Fulltime Workers, 1963-2005
Figure 2. Three Measures of Wage Inequality: College/High School Premium, Male 90/10 Overall Inequality, and Male 90/10 Residual Inequality (excel)

Figure 2 excel file

May/ORG files

Source data
out00-occout79-occ out90-occ may73
out01-occout80-occ out91-occ may74
out02-occout81-occ out92-occ may75
out03-occout82-occ out93-occ may76
out04-occout83-occ out94-occ may77
out05-occout84-occ out95-occ may78
out06-occout85-occ out96-occ
out86-occout97-occ
out87-occout98-occ
out88-occout99-occ
out89-occ

Cleaning programs

Working data sets

morg_cleaned_1973morg_cleaned_1974morg_cleaned_1975

morg_cleaned_1976morg_cleaned_1977morg_cleaned_1978

morg_cleaned_1979-occmorg_cleaned_1980-occ

morg_cleaned_1981-occmorg_cleaned_1982-occ

morg_cleaned_1983-occmorg_cleaned_1984-occ

morg_cleaned_1985-occmorg_cleaned_1986-occ

morg_cleaned_1987-occmorg_cleaned_1988-occ

morg_cleaned_1989-occmorg_cleaned_1990-occ

morg_cleaned_1991-occmorg_cleaned_1992-occ

morg_cleaned_1993-occmorg_cleaned_1994-occ

morg_cleaned_1995-occmorg_cleaned_1996-occ

morg_cleaned_1997-occmorg_cleaned_1998-occ

morg_cleaned_1999-occmorg_cleaned_2000-occ

morg_cleaned_2001-occmorg_cleaned_2002-occ

morg_cleaned_2003-occmorg_cleaned_2004-occ

morg_cleaned_2005-occmorg_cleaned_2006-occ

March CPS files

Source data
mar00 mar62 mar70mar80mar90
mar01 mar64 mar71mar81mar91
mar02 mar65 mar72mar82mar92
mar03 mar66 mar73mar83mar93
mar04 mar67 mar74mar84mar94
mar05 mar68 mar75mar85mar95
mar06 mar69 mar76mar86mar96
mar07 mar77 mar87mar97
mar78 mar88 mar98
mar79 mar88bmar99
mar89

Cleaning programs

Working data sets
mar00 mar62 mar70 mar80 mar90
mar01 mar63 mar71 mar81 mar91
mar02 mar64 mar72 mar82 mar92
mar03 mar65 mar73 mar83 mar93
mar04 mar66 mar74 mar84 mar94
mar05 mar67 mar75 mar85 mar95
mar06 mar68 mar76 mar86 mar96
mar07 mar69 mar77 mar87 mar97
mar78 mar88 mar98
mar79 mar89 mar99

Figure 3. 90/50 and 50/10 Weekly Wage Inequality In March (Full-Time Workers) and Hourly Wage Inequality in May/ORG (All Workers) CPS Series, 1963–2005
Figure 4. College/High School Relative Supply and Wage Differential, 1963–2005 (March CPS)
Figure 5. Trends in Composition-Adjusted Real Log Weekly Full-Time Wages By Gender and Education, 1963–2005 (March CPS)

Table 1. Changes in Real, Composition-Adjusted Log Weekly Wages for Full-Time, Full-Year Workers, 1963–2005. (100 X
Change in Mean Log Real Weekly Wages)
Table 2. Regression Models for the College/High School Log Wage Gap, 1963-2005
Table 3. Regression Models for the College/High School Log Wage Gap by Potential Experience Group, 1963-2005, Males and Females Pooled
Table 4. 100 X Observed and Composition-Constant Changes in Overall and Residual Hourly Inequality Measures (May/ORG CPS 1973, 1989, and 2005)