unionized employees in North America are women. While early studies of unions and inequality focused on males, recent studies … examine both and reveal striking gender differences. A consistent - and puzzling - finding is that unions reduce wage …, unions reduce economy-wide wage inequality by less than 10% in both countries. However, union impacts on wage inequality are …

sectoral wage floors. Although wages exhibit a "spike" at the wage floor, a typical worker receives a 20% premium over the … wages to covary with firm-specific productivity, even within sectoral agreements. Contract negotiations tend to raise all … absence of other factors would have led to rising real wages. …

of matching. For the much larger set of stereotypical vacancies, however, vacancy filling times, wages, and job durations …

dramatic rise in West German wage inequality. Our estimates suggest that the increasing dispersion of West German wages has …-match component of wage variation is small and stable over time. Decomposing changes in mean wages between different education groups …

more direct link between these two phenomena. The first examines how wages are affected by differences in employer ….5% increase in wages. A second literature focuses on firm-specific wage premiums, using the wage outcomes of job changers. This … effects contribute approximately 20% of the overall variance of wages. To interpret these findings, we develop a model where …