are not the reason for the change. The absence of substantial change in the union wage gap, and the stability of results … when conditioning on wages, both suggest the change is not associated with changes in unions' wage bargaining. Instead, we …

This paper provides evidence for the existence of a wage curve -- a micro-econometric association between the level of … countries, the wage curve in the United States has a long-run elasticity of approximately -0.1. In line with the paper … unemployment. We conclude that it is reasonable to view the wage curve as an empirical law of economics …

relative wage effects vary across groups and through time. The main findings may be summarized as follows. a) The union wage … rate, and appears to be untrended in both countries. Union wages are sticky. c) The size of the wage gap varies across …

rate of unemployment. This 'wage curve' is found to have an elasticity of approximately -0.1. Contrary to the Phillips …

last twenty years. Wage differentials by education and occupation (skill differentials) narrowed substantially in all four … countries in the 1970s. Overall wage inequality and skill differentials expanded dramatically in Great Britain and the United … States and moderately in Japan during the 1980s. In contrast, wage inequality did not increase much in France through the mid …

regional (or industry) unemployment. This "wage curve" is estimated using microeconomic data for Britain, the US, Canada, Korea ….1. The paper sets out a multi-region efficiency wage model and argues that its predictions are consistent with the data …