ascertain the contributions of worker, firm, match, and job-title heterogeneity to the union wage gap. Of these the most …

In European Welfare States, low-skilled workers are typically unionized, while the wage formation of high … affect wage formation, employment and welfare in dual domestic labour markets. Higher productivity of outsourcing, lower cost … of outsourcing and lower factor price of outsourcing increase wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low …

Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor … markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage …

piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal effect of neutral and gender-discriminatory unfair chances on labor supply. We … randomize workers into treatments where we control relative pay and chances to receive a low or a high wage. Chances can be fair …, unfair based on an unspecified source, or unfair based on gender discrimination. Unequal pay reduces labor supply of low-wage …

, search for employers, and residual wage shocks to account for these life cycle wage dynamics. We highlight the importance of … largest part of life cycle wage dynamics. It accounts for 50% of average wage growth, 50% of rising differences between gender …

The canonical supply-demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely influential; however, it has faced …

This paper develops a sufficient statistics approach for estimating the role of search frictions in wage dispersion and … lifecycle wage growth. We show how the wage dynamics of displaced workers are directly informative of both for a large class of … search models. Specifically, the correlation between pre- and post-displacement wages is informative of frictional wage …

income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap …