Using a unique set of repeated cross-sectional data this paper examines the causes of this increase in earnings inequality.

本文使用一个独特的由多年很截面数据组成的数据库对收入不平等在这期间的增长进行分析。

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Earnings inequality of full time workers did rise rapidly in the United States during the 1980s, and more slowly but significantly during the 1990s.

二十世纪八十年代的美国，全职工人收入的不平等确实增长很快。到了九十年代，增长速度虽然慢了但更加显著。

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The gap will widen between the best workers and the worst in terms of opportunities and earnings, contributing to greater income inequality and therefore potential social unrest.

从机遇和收入来看，优秀员工与最差员工的差距将会拉大，造成巨大的收入差异，由此引发社会动荡。

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Through their own ingenuity, access to capital and often oligopolistic hold on lucrative markets, they have enjoyed one of the greatest accumulations of wealth in recent economic history, even amidst generally declining earnings, rising poverty and inequality among their fellow Americans.

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Yet you deny that globalisation is the cause of rising inequality further down the earnings distribution (or of the rise in unskilled unemployment in Europe).

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When it comes to male labor earnings, the researchers found, the entire increase in inequality was permanent.

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