Replication data for: Occupations and the Structure of Wage Inequality in the United States: A Replication, Extension, and Critique

This paper comes in two parts, as two approaches to the same material, Ted Mouw and Arne Kalleberg's "Occupations and the Structure of Wage Inequality in the United States, 1980s to 2000s" (Annual Sociological Review, 2010). The first approach takes a positive view of the original article's methods and findings; it discusses the value of the authors' fine-grained multiple imputation process, and makes use of the data created in this imputation process as a starting point for further analyses of the US occupational structure. The second approach goes more deeply into the econometrics; it casts a more critical eye over the article's theory and methodology, questions whether the quantitative methods employed are sufficient to support the reported conclusions about wage inequality, and proposes an alternative method of analysis that contradicts the authors' findings.