Similar Search Results

The Great Compression : The Wage Structure in the United States at Mid- Century

Goldin, Claudia; Margo, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1991

The structure of wages narrowed considerably during the 1940's, increased slightly during the 1950's and 1960's, and then expanded greatly after 1970. The era of wage stretching of the past two decades has been a current focus, but we return attention here to the decade that was witness to an...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475180

Wage Dispersion Between and Within U.S. Manufacturing Plants, 1963-1986

Davis, Steve J. - 1991

This paper exploits a rich and largely untapped source of information on the wages and other characteristics of individual manufacturing plants to cast new light on recent changes in the United States wage structure. Our primary data source, the Longitudinal Research Datafile (LRD) , contains...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475285

The Earnings of Linguistic Minorities : French in Canada and Spanish in the United States

Bloom, David E. - 1991

This paper measures and compares the relative earnings of French and English speakers in Canada, and of Spanish and English speakers in the U.S., in the 1970s and 1980s. In Canada, the earnings gap between French and English speakers narrowed over time, especially in Quebec. This decline appears...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475356

Changes in the Structure of Wages : The U.S. versus Japan

Katz, Lawrence F. - 1989

This paper examines changes in wage differentials by educational attainment and experience in the US. and Japan since the early 1970s. While educational earnings differentials have expanded dramatically in the U.S. in the 1980s, the college wage premium has increased only slightly in Japan. In...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476025

Wage Structures and Labor Turnover in the U.S. and in Japan

Mincer, Jacob - 1987

The starting point of this study is the proposition that intensive formation of human capital on the job is the basic proximate reason for the strong degree of worker attachment to the firm in Japan. The greater emphasis on training and retraining, much of it specific to the firm, results also...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476762

Relative Wage Variability in the United States, 1860-1983

Allen, Steven G. - 1987

This paper examines the magnitude of changes in relative wages across industries between 1860 and 1983 and analyzes the macroeconomic determinants of such changes at different intervals during this period. The variance across industries in wage growth was at least four times larger before 1948...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476848

Comparable Worth in a General Equilibrium Model of the U.S. Economy

Beider, Perry C. - 1986

This paper presents a computable general equilibrium model that simulates the effects on employment, output, wages, and … on aggregate employment, output, and efficiency would be much larger than if the employment constraint is based on …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476979

Does a Flexible Industry Wage Structure Increase Employment? : The U.S. Experience

Bell, Linda A. - 1985

which changes in the industrial wage structure may have for employment. With regard to the flexibility of wages across … impact of a flexible industry wage structure on employment, we evaluate the circumstances under which flexible wages among … industries may be employment enhancing, and the set of circumstances under which flexible wages are likely to be employment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477478

Monitoring Costs and Occupational Segregation by Sex : An Historical Analysis

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1985

Supervisory and monitoring costs are explored to understand aspects of occupational segregation by sex. Around the turn of this century 47 percent of all female manufacturing operatives were paid by the piece, but only 13 percent of the males were. There were very few males and females employed...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477525

U.S. International Trade Policies in a World of Industrial Change

Richardson, J. David - 1983

This paper assesses the place of active trade policy in U.S. industrial change.The growing role of imperfectly competitive multinational corporations provides new arguments for more active U.S. trade policy, as does an increased social consensus that governments should insure what markets do...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477869