We use a simple theoretical framework and a randomized manipulation of access to information on peers' wages to provide …

that determine the distribution of jobs and wages? In Adam Smith%u2019s classic formulation, and in much of the subsequent … aptitudes that enable people of high ability to have jobs with both high wages and good working conditions, thus understating …

, and between 1978 and 1996, in ways correlated with changing wage inequality. Satisfaction among workers in upper earnings … response to a sharp increase in the relative earnings of high-wage men in the mid-1990s. Several hypotheses about the … so to surprises in the returns to unobservables; and the effects of earnings shocks on job satisfaction dissipate over …

influence of job mismatch is estimated for three job outcomes: earnings, job satisfaction and turnover. Surprisingly large and … robust influences emerge. Mismatch is associated with substantially lower earnings, lower job satisfaction and a higher rate …

significantly affects U.S. inward foreign direct investment. We find no evidence that relative wages have a significant impact on …

This paper exploits a rich and largely untapped source of information on the wages and other characteristics of …

' earnings impact property crime with an elasticity of -1, but that wages have no impact on violent crime. The paper also …This paper investigates the impact of unskilled workers' earnings on crime. Following the literature on wage inequality … specific measures of skill-biased technological change, which are then used as instruments for unskilled workers' earnings in …

We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories …

earnings of continuing employees. While full insurance is rejected, the elasticity of worker earnings with respect to … their employers' earnings distribution, suggesting that in certain jobs performance pay may be a countervailing force to …