A new NBER Working Paper, Countries For Old Men: An Analysis Of The Age Pay Gap by Nicola Bianchi and Matteo Paradisi, reveals, reveals that the pay gap between older and younger workers has been widening for decades across high-income countries, with wages of older workers growing much faster than those of their younger counterparts. The paper uses administrative and survey data to investigate this growing wage disparity.
  • @thisorthatorwhatever
    6•5 months ago

    “…younger employees become less likely to work for higher-paying firms, whose share of older workers disproportionately increases over time…”