for median weekly earnings growth into the part associated with the wage growth ofpersons employed at the beginning and … end of the period (the wage growth effect) and the part associated withchanges in the composition of earners (the … tight job switchers get high wage increases,making them account for half of the variation in median weekly earnings growth …

: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention. Contrary to the traditional gift-exchange hypothesis, we show that … than egoistic managers do. In such equilibria, a low wage signals to employees that the manager has something else to offer …

) search methods. Job offers can be obtained by either method, and the corresponding wage offer distributions are allowed to … result in a higher wage. Moreover, individuals who have an advantage in informal search do not find a job more rapidly, which …

We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a richmatched employer … set of worker- and firm-levelobservable and unobservable characteristics to the wage gap, and (ii) by controlling for … firm size and sales are, todifferent extents, important components of the wage gap both for exporters and importers …

It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this … paper we analyze a model with wage setting, search frictions, and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition … of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the lowest wage in the market exceeds the minimum wage …

to wage floors. Wage floors exist because of high unemployment benefits or binding minimum wages. The productivity … decompose the total unemployment rate and we examine the effect of changes in the minimum wage. …

search models of the labor market are able to fit the wage distribution perfectly with longitudinal labor supply data, by …

spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on … control over the profitable employment of their human capital than wage employees. …