%0 Report
        %A Briskar, Juraj
%A Porto, Edoardo di
%A Mora, José V. Rodriguez
%A Tealdi, Cristina
        %T The Role of Industries in Rising Inequality
        %D 2023
        %8 2023 Dec
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 16693
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp16693
        %X We analyse thirty years of Italian private sector employment data (1985-2018) to study the dynamics of rising earnings inequality. The total variance surged by 10 log points, with 55% occurring between industries, particularly in a few low-paid service sectors. Workers with low earnings ability showed increased likelihood of working in industries with low average firm premium (sorting) together with other low-earning workers (segregation). Strikingly, parallels with the US emerge. In both, inequality increased predominantly between industries and concentrated within a small number of sectors. Italy's increase primarily stems from low-paying sectors, diverging from the more balanced growth observed in the US across high-paying and low-paying industries. Our findings suggest that despite institutional differences similar underlying forces are at work.
        %K earnings inequality
%K industries
%K sorting
%K segregation