productivity growth. If this is where the premium originates, then firms and workers benefit. Without unions bargaining … successfully to raise worker wages, income inequality would almost certainly be higher than it is. …

household survey and conduct wage regressions to conclude whether individuals who perceive their wages as unfair earn … significantly lower wages than fairly paid individuals with similar characteristics. We find that unfairly paid individuals earn … significantly less than fairly paid counterparts. This suggests that unfairness perceptions with respect to wages are based on sound …

wages would depend on the presence of controls for individual productivity. In this paper we replicate, using personnel data … effect of seniority on wages does not reflect a higher productivity of more senior workers. Theories in which wages are …Wages may be observed to increase with seniority because of firm-specific human capital accumulation or because of self …

Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers … countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and only modest effects on wage differentials between more and less … educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers' wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …

wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the lowest wage in the market exceeds the minimum wage. The model has …

This paper uses firm-level panel data of on-the-job training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To this … the endogeneity of input factors and training. We find that the productivity premium of a trained worker is substantially …

conditions for an incomes policy to be successful. He then analysed the different methods of linking wages to productivity in a …

productivity) is low. Secondly, our estimates of the effects of training on wages are about half the size of the effects on …There is a vast empirical literature on the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of … productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity …

of white-collar workers’ wages with respect to the local college share is around 0.1, while we find no evidence of a … positive effect of local human capital on blue-collar workers’ wages. …