knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zone" where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …

workers, firms, and occupations with a focus on peer effects in wages rather than productivity. Our estimation strategy … – which links the average permanent productivity of workers' peers to their wages – circumvents the reflection problem and … accounts for the endogenous sorting of workers into peer groups and firms. On average, we find only small peer effects in wages …

unionized workforce. We develop a simple efficiency wage model, with a tradeoff between higher wages for workers and more … variety of data sets, we examine the implications of the model for the relationship between the employment and wages of … unionization in an industry and region and a higher union wage differential are associated with fewer managers. (2) Managers wages …

economic analysis. I check this assertion by analyzing wages and status within the firm, with status measured as the worker …. Estimation takes account of worker unobserved heterogeneity. Results indicate that movers are subject to slower rank progression …

relative wages increase with competition using a large panel of United Kingdom workers with complete work histories. I identify …