they face and their family structure. We study wage risk in the UK and show that the persistence and riskiness of wages … alternative processes for wages: a canonical one and a flexible one that allows for the much richer dynamics that we document in …

declining membership numbers, unions are able to raise wages substantially over the equivalent non-union wage. Unions in other …, are also able to raise wages by significant amounts. In countries where union wage settlements frequently spill over into …

manufacturing jobs have shrunk in number. In this paper, we characterize the wages that have accompanied the growth in retail. We …

an increasing share of available income, while low-skilled workers have seen an absolute decline in real wages. How and … escalation of high-skill wages. This collection brings together innovative new ideas and data sources in order to provide more … on U.S. wages. This timely volume offers a thorough appraisal of the wage distribution predicament, examining the …

are as follows. First, holding constant individual characteristics, average weekly wages are 11 percent lower in nonprofit …

, despite the global nature of the marketplace, the location of the worker accounts for over a third of the variance in wages …. We also document that remote wages in local currency move almost one-for-one with the dollar exchange rate of the worker …'s country, and are highly sensitive to changes in the wages of foreign competitors. Finally, we provide a new measure on which …

bargaining power of workers, leading to lower average wages. A key insight is that employers credibly refuse to pay high wages to … individual bargaining power, such as under a collective bargaining agreement or in markets with posted wages, greater … transparency has a muted impact on average wages. We test these predictions by evaluating the roll-out of U.S. state legislation …

The entry of married women into the labor force and the rise in women's relative wages are amongst the most notable … discontinued growth in female labor supply and wages since the 1990s is a consequence of growing inequality. Our hypothesis is that … their participation and wages. We show that the slowdown in participation and wage growth was concentrated among women …