This paper provides evidence for the existence of a wage curve -- a micro-econometric association between the level of … countries, the wage curve in the United States has a long-run elasticity of approximately -0.1. In line with the paper … unemployment. We conclude that it is reasonable to view the wage curve as an empirical law of economics …

wage level (not on the rate of change of pay or prices) . The paper finds evidence - on British and US data - of a wage …

last twenty years. Wage differentials by education and occupation (skill differentials) narrowed substantially in all four … countries in the 1970s. Overall wage inequality and skill differentials expanded dramatically in Great Britain and the United … States and moderately in Japan during the 1980s. In contrast, wage inequality did not increase much in France through the mid …

declining membership numbers, unions are able to raise wages substantially over the equivalent non-union wage. Unions in other …, are also able to raise wages by significant amounts. In countries where union wage settlements frequently spill over into … the non-union sector (e.g. France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden) there is no significant union wage …

relative wage effects vary across groups and through time. The main findings may be summarized as follows. a) The union wage … rate, and appears to be untrended in both countries. Union wages are sticky. c) The size of the wage gap varies across …