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 …

importance of individual bargaining in wage determination. We show that simple survey questions accurately elicit firms … engage in individual wage bargaining. Labor market factors predict firms' strategies better than firm characteristics. Survey … substantial heterogeneity in workers' bargaining behavior, which translates into within-firm wage inequality. Firms that set pay …

wages and offer slower and less rewarding careers. Differences in worker sorting account for half of the wage gap while … productivity differences and compensating differentials explain little of the residual gap. The wage distribution in family firms …

This paper expands on Gibbons and Katz (1991) by looking at how the difference in wage losses across plant closing and … other groups. We also find that the relative wage losses of blacks following layoffs increased after the Civil Rights Act of …

This paper provides evidence for the existence of a wage curve -- a micro-econometric association between the level of … countries, the wage curve in the United States has a long-run elasticity of approximately -0.1. In line with the paper … unemployment. We conclude that it is reasonable to view the wage curve as an empirical law of economics …