摘要：It has been widely reported that US real wages have been in decline for decades. In a recent policy note—Policy Note 2014/4, A Decade of Flat Wages? 1 —we examined wage trends since 1994. We found that while wages grew between 1994 and 2002, average real wages since 2002–03 were stagnant or declining. This policy note reported that but for an increase in the share of older/more experienced and better-educated workers, a decade of flat wages (2003–13) was in fact a decade of falling average real wages. The present study provides a more detailed analysis of wage trends for wage-level, age, and education groups, with emphasis on the periods following the 2001 and 2007–09 recessions.
