Chapter contents

• Describing wage trends
  • The decade of lost wage growth
    This section contains these charts: 4A
  • Contrasting work hours and hourly wage growth
    This section contains these charts: 4.1
  • Contrasting compensation and wage growth
    This section contains these charts: 4.2
  • Wages of production and nonsupervisory workers
    This section contains these charts: 4.3 | 4B
  • Wage trends by wage level
    This section contains these charts: 4.4 | 4C | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4D
  • Shifts in low-wage jobs
    This section contains these charts: 4E | 4F
  • Trends among very high earners fuel growing wage inequality
    This section contains these charts: 4G | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4H
  • Trends in benefit growth and inequality
    This section contains these charts: 4.9. 4.10 | 4.11 | 4I | 4J | 4.12
• Dimensions of wage inequality
  This section contains these charts: 4.13
  • Gaps between higher- and lower-wage workers
    This section contains these charts: 4K | 4L | 4M
  • Gaps between workers with different education and experience levels
    This section contains these charts: 4N
  • The gap between workers with comparable education and experience
  • Rising education/wage differentials
    This section contains these charts: 4.14 | 4.15 | 4.16 | 4.17 | 4O
  • Young workers’ wages
    This section contains these charts: 4.18 | 4P | 4Q | 4R | 4S
  • The growth of within-group wage inequality
    This section contains these charts: 4.19 | 4.20
  • Wage inequality by race/ethnicity and gender
    This section contains these charts: 4.21 | 4.22 | 4T
• Productivity and the compensation/productivity gap
  This section contains these charts: 4U | 4V | 4.23
• Factors driving wage inequality
  • Unemployment
    This section contains these charts: 4W | 4.24
  • The shift to low-paying industries
    This section contains these charts: 4.25
  • Employer health care costs
    This section contains these charts: 4.26 | 4.27 | 4X
  • Trade and wages
    This section contains these charts: 4Y | 4Z | 4AA | 4.28 | 4.29 | 4.30 | 4AB
  • Immigration
    This section contains these charts: 4.31 | 4.32
  • Unionization
    This section contains these charts: 4AC | 4.33 | 4.34 | 4.35 | 4.36 | 4.37 | 4.38
  • The decline in the real value of the minimum wage
    This section contains these charts: 4.39 | 4AD | 4AE | 4.40 | 4AF | 4AG | 4.41
  • Executive and finance sector pay
    This section contains these charts: 4.42 | 4.43 | 4AH
  • Explaining wage inequality: Bringing the factors together
• Technology and skill mismatches
  • What is the appeal of the technology story?
  • Education gaps and wage inequality
    This section contains these charts: 4.44
  • The slowdown in the growth of demand for college graduates
    This section contains these charts: 4AI
  • Within-group wage inequality
  • The labor market difficulties of college graduates
    This section contains these charts: 4AJ | 4.45 | 4AK
• Jobs of the future
  This section contains these charts: 4.46 | 4AL