%0 Report
        %A Monaco, Kristen
%A Habermalz, Steffen
        %T Wage Inequality of U.S. Truck Drivers
        %D 2011
        %8 2011 Jan
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 5444
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5444
        %X Using CPS data for the period 1979-2009, the wage dispersion of truck drivers (and subsets of the truck driving sample) is compared to the trends in wage dispersion of males economy-wide. We find that truckers' wages experienced a decrease in inequality post-deregulation, as expected given the literature on regulation's impact on the labor market. We also find that the wage dispersion for truckers is markedly different from males economy-wide, providing evidence that the wage distribution of truck drivers has been dominated by the changing structure of the occupation post-deregulation and largely immune to the factors that increased inequality for the aggregate labor market.
        %K wage inequality
%K wage differentials
%K trucking