status.Our empirical analysis suggests the following conclusions.1)Wages for work while not retired and for work while … to distinguish between wages paid to the partially retired and to the not retired causes a sizable exaggeration of the …

licensing is associated with about 14 percent higher wages, but the effect of governmental certification on pay is much smaller … positively associated with wages. We find little association between licensing and the variance of wages, in contrast to unions …

is that the U.S. labor market has flexible wages and employment practices, whereas European labor markets are rigid. The …-country differences in employment and population growth. This section finds that the U.S. has managed to absorb added workers … -- especially female workers -- into employment at a greater rate than most countries. The leading explanation for this phenomenon …

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