We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms …

This paper examines the effects of alcohol consumption on employment and wages for males and females in Russia. Both … impact on employment and wages. Further, there is some evidence in favor of an inverse U-shaped relationship between alcohol …

wages to reflect this. Formal analysis supports the intuition. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of … education as an indicator of the heterogeneity that employers face. We find solid evidence that starting wages are lower if the … variance of exam grades is higher and that starting wages are lower if the skew is higher: employers shift quality risk to new …

to young workers. Findings further indicate that average hourly wages within firms increase significantly and …

, we find that household characteristics explain about 25% of the dispersion in wages within an age group in all three … countries. Second, the cross-sectional variance of wages is almost linearly increasing in household age in all three countries …

While large literatures have shown that cognitive ability and schooling increases employment and wages, an emerging … employment and wages and is also able to control for many other sources of heterogeneity, including attractiveness, cognitive …

United States, by constructing nonparametric bounds for the average and quantile treatment effects of the program on wages …. Our preferred estimates point toward convincing evidence of positive effects of JC on wages both at the mean and …. Furthermore, we find that the program's effect on wages varies across quantiles and groups. Blacks likely experience larger …

experience less favorable employment outcomes along multiple dimensions. On average, stayers earn lower annual and hourly wages …