This paper summarizes evidence for the existence of a wage curve - a downward-sloping relationship between the level of …

potential for wage-push inflation. However, real wages are falling rapidly at present and, prior to that, real wages had been … stagnant for some time. We show that unemployment is not key to understanding wage formation in the USA and hasn t been since … not working significantly reduce wage pressures in the United States. This finding holds in panel data with state and year …

expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by Lazear (1979), we discuss steep … seniority wage profiles as incentives for firms to dismiss older workers before retirement. Conditional on individual retirement … incentives, e.g., social security wealth or health status, the steepness of the wage profile will have different incentives for …

This paper studies the wage differentials between the public and private sectors in Spain, as well as its distribution … across different educational levels and by gender. To do so, the well-known Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of mincerian wage … regressions is applied for both sectors, breaking down the (public-private) wage gap into a component explained by differences in …