The nonprofit sector's share of wage and salary employment in the U.S. has increased over time, from about 5½ percent …. Standard wage level analysis indicates lower wages for men employed in nonprofits compared to male for-profit workers with … similar measured attributes. No such penalty is found for women. Based on panel estimates of wage changes, we find no …

Estimates of union wage effects have been challenged due to concerns over unobserved worker heterogeneity and … endogenous job changes. Many believe that union wage premiums lead to business failures and other forms of worker displacement …. In this paper, displacement rates and union wage gaps are examined using the 1994-2018 biennial Displaced Worker Survey …

Economists and sociologists have proposed arguments for why there can exist wage penalties for work involving helping … and caring for others, penalties borne disproportionately by women. Evidence on wage penalties is neither abundant nor … compelling. We examine wage differentials associated with caring jobs using multiple years of Current Population Survey (CPS …

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 …