contributor to the lower wages paid to black and Hispanic men than to white men with similar individual characteristics. Our …

cannot be explained by either the observed or unobserved skills of the workforce or the characteristics of the workplace. To … over time so such controls are possible. Changes in wages are shown to respond to changes both to profits per employee and …-size relationship can be explained by the skills of the workers. They can be shown to be consistent with some forms of non …

have positive impacts on young women's wages. We find evidence of ability sorting, but controlling for ability, women who … attend higher quality colleges earn higher wages. Women receive smaller gains from college quality than do men; black women … earn more than those who attend public colleges, and women earn lower wages, the higher the proportion of their college …

have substantial positive impacts on young men's wages. This finding is robust to a wide array of alternative …

positive knowledge spillovers, but the effects of intra-industry trade are ambiguous. With regard to sectoral import … penetration, we find that potential positive spillovers are dominated by negative competition effects. This, however, masks the …

country level data for 17 OECD countries. The paper relates to a large recent literature on productivity spillovers from …This paper investigates the productivity effects of inward and outward foreign direct investment using industry and … inward FDI, however, we also consider the relationship between productivity and outward FDI in the same estimation. Our …