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 …

We develop an empirical framework to assess the importance of trade and technical change on the wages of production and … outsourcing and expenditures on high-technology equipment can explain a substantial amount of the increase in the wages of …

trade on U.S. wages. The standard model of general equilibrium presented shows that each effect tends to be opposite in sign … same, not oppo- site effect on wages at both skill levels; a rise in the foreign share in world innovation or US patents … decreases US wages; an increase in the US share in world innovation or US patents raises US wages, especially for the less …

This paper exploits a rich and largely untapped source of information on the wages and other characteristics of …

This study examines the effect of trade unionism on the dispersion of wages among male wage and salary workers in the … dominate the more widely studied impact of unionism on the dispersion of average wages across industries, so that on net …

Zeitverwendungserhebung, 2012-13, have sufficient observations to allow examining the theory of household production in much more detail than …

We study worker and firm behavior in an efficiency-wage environment where co-workers' wages may potentially influence a … worker's effort. Theoretically, we show that an increase in workers' responsiveness to co-workers' wages should lead profit …-maximizing firms to compress wages under quite general conditions. Our laboratory experiments, on the other hand, show that --while …