Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment … rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical search model – even if wages are only … reservation wages, and consider an alternative reservation wage model based on reference dependence in job search. This extension …

small effect on mean accepted wages but a significant negative effect on the non-employment rate …) minimum wages, with potentially imperfect compliance or exemptions; and, (iii) exogenous wage growth on-the-job. We use panel …

/or employment penalty in the latter than in the former. We find that, overall, the between-industry component of labor demand …

. We will revisit key stylized facts about gender gaps in employment and wages in a few high-income countries. We then … discuss and build on one gender-neutral force behind the rise in female employment, namely the rise of the service economy …, which is also closely related to the polarization of female employment and to the geographic distribution of jobs, which is …

Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women …, if women who are employed tend to have relatively high-wage characteristics, low female employment rates may become … explore this idea across the US and EU by estimating gender gaps in potential wages. We recover information on wages for those …

We estimate the elasticity of vacancy duration with respect to posted wages, using data from the near-universe of …