Using panel data from 23 OECD countries, I document that wages grow more over the life-cycle in countries where job …

the current period movers. Longer-run wage gains are defined as the difference in wages between two successive jobs at the …

implements a pair of tests for the exogeneity of wages in a longitudinal labor supply model, and for the particular failure of … hours Granger -- cause wages at the individual level. The second test involves a simultaneous estimation of labor supply and … from the process generating wages, even when long time series are available on a sample of individuals …

This paper examines the effect of earnings taxes on the variability of wages over time. We estimate a "hedonic wage … and temporal variation of hourly wages. On the basis of these utility function parameters, we predict that lowering the …

This paper argues that rigid wages cannot provide the underpinnings of a universally valid theory of the business cycle …, simply because wages are not universally rigid. Several different statistical techniques suggest that wage rates in the U … greater flexibility in wages, these two countries also exhibit more stable employment behavior over the business cycle. In …