taking jobs in the public sector, either with respect to wages or pension wealth … Study to investigate whether workers in federal, state, and local government receive more generous wage and pension … compensation than private sector workers, ceteris paribus. With respect to hourly remuneration (wages plus employer contributions …

influence career choice, inference benefits from the use of non-wage measures, such as seniority. We apply it to study labor …

is nevertheless important for the level and dynamics of wages over the life cycle because of the incentives it indirectly … profile of wages, their dispersion, and their composition in terms of fixed and variable (performance) pay. The model admits …

attributed to service-sector wages, consistent with a dominant role of the retail distribution margin. Second, at the level of … individual goods and services, the average contribution of service-sector wages is significantly reduced, one-third as large (31 … consistent with the notion that baby-sitting services and haircuts embody local wages to a far greater extent than highly traded …

for a dramatically lower percentage of total variation in benefits than in wages. We also document sharply higher between …-firm variation in nonwage benefits than in wages. We argue that this pattern can be a consequence of nondiscrimination regulations … labor markets positively predicts their colleagues' benefits, controlling for occupation, wages, state, and industry. We …

comparisons and caused employers to bargain more aggressively, lowering average wages. Other pay transparency policies, without …