TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Monaco, Kristen
AU  - Habermalz, Steffen
        TI  - Wage Inequality of U.S. Truck Drivers
        PY  - 2011/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5444
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5444
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - wage inequality
KW  - wage differentials
KW  - trucking
        ER  -