Students who attend different colleges in the U.S. end up with vastly different economic outcomes. We study the role of … outcomes of students who apply to and are admitted by the same set of institutions, as this approach strikingly balances …

particular, we use data on individual students' grades, SAT scores, and the SAT scores of their roommates at three schools to … three schools used, students in the middle of the SAT distribution do somewhat worse in terms of grades if they share a room … with a student who is in the bottom 15 percent of the SAT distribution. Students in the top of the SAT distribution appear …

much less, in (continental) Europe over the same time period. I review the two most popular explanations for these … differential trends: that relative supply of skills increased faster in Europe, and that European labor market institutions … where labor market institutions creating wage compression in Europe also encourage more investment in technologies …

An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using …

This paper develops a simple framework for examining human capital accumulation, unemployment, and relative wages in a … global economy. It builds on the models of Davis (1997a, b) of trade between a flexible wage America and a rigid wage Europe …

. Europe has neither greater nominal wage flexibility nor more rigid real wages than the U. S. Evidence that the U. S. exhibits … uptrend in previously developed wage gap indexes for Japan and Europe between the 1960s and 1980s. If anything real wages in …This paper studies the dynamic behavior of changes in productivity, wages, and prices. Results are based on a new data …