Rising wage inequality within-gender since 1975 has created the illusion of rising wage equality between genders. In … ones with less earnings potential, and the wage gap between workers and nonworkers was large. Accounting for the growing …

. For many fields the payoffs rival the college wage premiums, suggesting the choice of field is potentially as important as …

to control for unobserved worker heterogeneity results in sharply lower estimates of union wage premia. We estimate a … median union wage premium of about 9 percent, but with, in a more novel finding, substantial heterogeneity across workers …

various cities, which differ in their wage levels, housing costs, and land values. Using 2006 Canadian Census data, our …

Wage evidence suggests that immigrant workers are imperfectly substitutable for native-born workers with similar … immigration is concentrated among immigrants with poor English skills. Similarly, immigrants who arrive at young ages, as adults …

immigration. An IV strategy, which deals with the endogeneity of immigration by exploiting a large influx of Central American … wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the … immigrants towards U.S. Southern ports of entry after Hurricane Mitch, also generates positive wage effects but only for more …

wage response, the impact of migration on the wage structure differs significantly across countries. International … migration narrowed wage inequality in Canada; increased it in the United States; and reduced the relative wage of workers at the …