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  • Central tendency and spread of earnings distributions are theoretically related, though methodologically independent.
  • Understanding this relationship is key to analyzing wage structures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how changes in the mean of pharmacists' earnings affect earnings inequality.
  • To determine if increased central tendency in earnings leads to wider or narrower dispersion.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized survey data from pharmacists in South Florida.
  • Employed ordinary least squares regression to model five inequality indicators against the mean earnings.
  • Analyzed data for all pharmacists and separately for full-time pharmacists.

Main Results:

  • A significant relationship exists between earnings central tendency and dispersion.
  • Including part-time pharmacists reversed the observed effect of earnings levels on inequality.
  • Higher earnings reduced inequality for all pharmacists but increased it for full-time pharmacists.

Conclusions:

  • The earnings generation process differs between full-time and part-time pharmacists.
  • The opportunity cost of leisure influences pharmacists' work hours, earnings patterns, and other labor outcomes.