TY - UNPB
T1 - The Great Separation
T2 - Top Earner Segregation at Work in High-income Countries
AU - Godechot, Olivier
AU - Apascaritei, Paula
AU - Boza, István
AU - Henriksen, Lasse
AU - Hermansen, Are Skeie
AU - Hou, Feng
AU - Kodama, Naomi
AU - Krízková, Alena
AU - Jung, Jiwook
AU - Elvira, Marta
AU - Melzer, Silvia Maja
AU - Mun, Eunmi
AU - Sabanci, Halil
AU - Thaning, Max
AU - Bandelj, Nina
AU - Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald
AU - Rainey, Anthony
AU - Bandelj, Nina
AU - Baudour, Alexis
AU - Avent-Holt, Dustin
AU - Kanjuo-Mrčela, Aleksandra
AU - Lippényi, Zoltán
AU - Penner, Andrew
AU - Petersen, Trond
AU - Poje, Andreja
AU - Rainey, William
AU - Safi, Mirna
AU - Soener, Matthew
AU - Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Analyzing linked employer-employee panel administrative databases, we study the evolving isolation of higher earners from other employees in eleven countries: Canada, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Norway, Spain, South Korea, and Sweden. We find in almost all countries a growing workplace isolation of top earners and dramatically declining exposure of top earners to bottom earners. We compare these trends to segregation based on occupational class, education, age, gender, and nativity, finding that the rise in top earner isolation is much more dramatic and general across countries. We find that residential segregation is also growing, although more slowly than segregation at work, with top earners and bottom earners increasingly living in different distinct municipalities. While work and residential segregation are correlated, statistical modeling suggests that the primary causal effect is from work to residential segregation. These findings open up a future research program on the causes and consequences of top earner segregation.
AB - Analyzing linked employer-employee panel administrative databases, we study the evolving isolation of higher earners from other employees in eleven countries: Canada, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Norway, Spain, South Korea, and Sweden. We find in almost all countries a growing workplace isolation of top earners and dramatically declining exposure of top earners to bottom earners. We compare these trends to segregation based on occupational class, education, age, gender, and nativity, finding that the rise in top earner isolation is much more dramatic and general across countries. We find that residential segregation is also growing, although more slowly than segregation at work, with top earners and bottom earners increasingly living in different distinct municipalities. While work and residential segregation are correlated, statistical modeling suggests that the primary causal effect is from work to residential segregation. These findings open up a future research program on the causes and consequences of top earner segregation.
KW - Work
KW - Earnings
KW - Segregation
KW - Inequality
KW - Elite
KW - Work
KW - Earnings
KW - Segregation
KW - Inequality
KW - Elite
M3 - Working paper
T3 - MaxPo Discussion Paper
BT - The Great Separation
PB - Max Planck Sciences Po Center
CY - Paris
ER -