Since the early 1980s, the U.S. economy has experienced a growing wage differential: high-skilled workers have claimed … on U.S. wages. This timely volume offers a thorough appraisal of the wage distribution predicament, examining the …

results raise questions about several predominant models of nonprofit wage-setting …

characterized by different wage growth prospects, individual discount rates play an important role in the relative valuation of jobs … with steeper wage profiles. To test this hypothesis we use smoking as an instrument for time preference. Panel data from … work histories and other socio-economic variables. We find that smokers have substantially flatter wage profiles, and a …

level productivity and wage outcomes and estimate production functions and wage equation using both cross sectional and …

Prevailing wage laws, which require that construction workers employed by private contractors on public projects be … slightly after the repeal of a state prevailing wage law. However, the small overall impact of law repeal masks substantial … union wage premium and a significant narrowing of the black/nonblack wage differential for construction workers …