methods in the labor earnings inequality literature. …

heterogeneity, job-specific error components in both wages and hours, and measurement error. We use the model to address a number of … important questions in labor economics, including the source of the experience profile of wages, the response of job changes to …-specific error components in wages and hours. …

Recent research on United States levels and trends in income inequality vary substantially in how they measure income … IRS tax return data. Doing so dramatically reduces the observed growth in income inequality across the distribution, but …

Britain, we study wage behavior in both countries, with particular attention to the Great Recession. Real wages are … procyclical in both countries, but the procyclicality of real wages varies across recessions, and does so differently between the …

knowledge-based hierarchies to study issues like the evolution of wage inequality, the growth and productivity of firms …

In search and bargaining models, the effect of higher wages on employment is determined by the elasticity of the job … creation curve and a standard demand curve is that the former represents a relationship between wages and employment rates …, while the latter represents a relationship between wages and employment levels. Although this distinction is quite simple …