A new explanation for wage stagnation

Liwa Rachel Ngai interviewed by Tim Phillips, 21 August 2020

Low-skilled workers are concentrated in sectors with fast productivity growth, so why isn't their pay rising? Rachel Ngai tells Tim Phillips that one explanation is in how low-skilled workers are reallocated between different sectors. 

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Topics:  Labour markets

Tags:  low-skilled labour, real-wage stagnation

Liwa Rachel Ngai

Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, research associate at Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) and a member of Centre for Macroeconomics (CfM), LSE

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