transitions between labor status or jobs, whereas for those at the top, earnings changes are mainly induced by wage rate growth …

independence. In short, they climb the career ladder. Climbing the career ladder explains 50% of wage growth and virtually all of … rising wage dispersion. The increasing gender wage gap by age parallels a rising hierarchy gap. Our findings suggest that … wage dynamics are shaped by the organization of production, which itself likely depends on technology, the skill set of the …

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 …

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

, individual wage risk has also increased. This paper proposes a mechanism through which a rise in wage risk increases the skill … premium. Intuitively, a rise in uninsured wage risk increases precautionary savings, thereby boosting capital accumulation … that the rise in wage risk observed between 1967 and 2010 increases the skill premium significantly. This finding is robust …