Are changes in the dispersion of hours worked a cause of increased earnings inequality?

IZA Journal of European Labor Studies

Table 8 Decomposition of earnings dispersion by skill-gender groups: absolute and relative contributions, 1995

Group	Country	I _y	I _w	I _h	ρ	RC_w	RC_h	RC_ρ
Low-	USA	0.168	0.145	0.021	0.002	0.864	0.126	0.010
skilled		(0.009)	(0.008)	(0.002)	(0.003)
males	UK	0.114	0.110	0.027	−0.022	0.961	0.234	−0.195
		(0.012)	(0.011)	(0.003)	(0.011)
	DE	0.070	0.075	0.025	−0.030	1.071	0.356	−0.428
		(0.003)	(0.004)	(0.002)	(0.004)
	FR	0.074	0.064	0.013	−0.002	0.861	0.172	−0.033
		(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.000)	(0.001)
High-	USA	0.170	0.139	0.027	0.003	0.821	0.160	0.019
skilled		(0.006)	(0.005)	(0.002)	(0.003)
males	UK	0.126	0.104	0.035	−0.014	0.830	0.278	−0.109
		(0.010)	(0.006)	(0.006)	(0.006)
	DE	0.105	0.100	0.025	−0.020	0.951	0.241	−0.192
		(0.008)	(0.012)	(0.004)	(0.011)
	FR	0.126	0.117	0.042	−0.034	0.931	0.337	−0.268
		(0.005)	(0.004)	(0.002)	(0.004)
Low-	USA	0.169	0.123	0.043	0.003	0.728	0.252	0.020
skilled		(0.007)	(0.007)	(0.003)	(0.007)
females	UK	0.266	0.100	0.122	0.044	0.377	0.459	0.164
		(0.012)	(0.008)	(0.007)	(0.007)
	DE	0.178	0.100	0.096	−0.017	0.561	0.537	−0.098
		(0.008)	(0.007)	(0.005)	(0.009)
	FR	0.132	0.068	0.059	0.005	0.518	0.447	0.035
		(0.003)	(0.002)	(0.001)	(0.001)
High-	USA	0.215	0.138	0.055	0.023	0.641	0.254	0.105
skilled		(0.007)	(0.005)	(0.003)	(0.003)
females	UK	0.244	0.127	0.099	0.019	0.518	0.405	0.077
		(0.021)	(0.012)	(0.009)	(0.010)
	DE	0.153	0.125	0.086	−0.058	0.816	0.562	−0.378
		(0.019)	(0.015)	(0.009)	(0.013)
	FR	0.097	0.096	0.056	−0.055	0.984	0.579	−0.562
		(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.002)	(0.003)