During the 1980s, the wage gap between white women and white men in the US declined by approximately 1 percentage point … white women and white men would have been achieved as early as 2017 …

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 …

Under the Civil War pension act of 1862, the widow of a Union Army soldier was entitled to a pension if her husband … died as a direct result of his military service; however, she lost her right to the pension if she remarried. I analyze the … understood. Using a new database compiled from widows' pension files, I estimate the effect of the pension on the hazard rate of …

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 …

women's spending on beauty-enhancing goods and services. We find that beauty raises women's earnings (and to a lesser extent …

Educational Longitudinal Survey respondents. For females, adolescent drinking and adult wages are unrelated, and negative …

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 …

efficient in an era when men are increasingly a source of family economic instability while women's outside options improve. I …