' access to electricity in Lebanon. Using quantitative and qualitative methods we find that political connections significantly …

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 …

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

while lowerranking executives see their wages fall. Third, higher competition is associated with a higher probability of …