-section comparisons of wages and immigration in the 1980 and 1990 Censuses yield unstable results casting doubt on the validity of these …

variation can be accounted for by industry differences. In the aggregate industry effects explain at least 6.7% of inter …-personal wage variation. At most they explain 30%. While the importance of industry differences is clear, the reasons for the … differences are more difficult to establish. Independent of the problems of interpreting the correlates of industry differences …

This paper compares changes in the structure of wages in France, Great Britain, Japan. and the United States over the …

The wage structure in the U.S. public sector responded sluggishly to substantial changes in private sector wages during …

school males in the U.S., the wages of male new entrants have risen relative to more experienced workers for both high school …

relationship between inter-industry applications differentials and inter-industry wage differentials. In addition, our results …

wages of different occupations are highly correlated across industries -- that is if any occupation in an industry is highly …Numerous studies have shown large differences in wages for apparently similar workers across industries. These findings … pose a challenge to standard model s of labor market behavior. A problem with past studies of industry wage differences is …