This paper uses census and survey data to identify the wage earning ability and the selectivity of recent Romanian …

characterized by different wage growth prospects, individual discount rates play an important role in the relative valuation of jobs … with steeper wage profiles. To test this hypothesis we use smoking as an instrument for time preference. Panel data from … work histories and other socio-economic variables. We find that smokers have substantially flatter wage profiles, and a …

intensive and extensive margin. The first assumes that individuals face different continuous wage-hours schedules. The second …

individual manufacturing plants to cast new light on recent changes in the United States wage structure. Our primary data source … the LRD to investigate changes in the plant-wage structure over the past three decades. We also combine plant-level wage … observations in the LRD with wage observations on individual workers in the Current Population Survey (CPS) to estimate the between …

women's relative wage increased, particularly during the period of liberalization. Both between and within-industry shifts …

When wage contracts are relatively short-lived, rent sharing may reduce the incentives for investment since some of the … measure the degree of rent sharing and test for holdup. We estimate wage models with job match effects, allowing us to control …