construct a general equilibrium model where workers' reservation wages and the maximum punishment acceptable before workers quit … an adverse signal, and establishing conditions under which equilibrium entails lowering wages (performance contracting …-strategy equilibrium. The economy is, in general, not efficient either in the selection of the form of equilibrium or the wages paid within …

, father's education, and wages for young men and their siblings from NLSY. We also examine the empirical implications of …

This study examines the effect of trade unionism on the dispersion of wages among male wage and salary workers in the … dominate the more widely studied impact of unionism on the dispersion of average wages across industries, so that on net …

financed by employer and employee, on male-female wage and employment differentials. Chapter 1 introduces the topic of sex …

We study worker and firm behavior in an efficiency-wage environment where co-workers' wages may potentially influence a … worker's effort. Theoretically, we show that an increase in workers' responsiveness to co-workers' wages should lead profit …-maximizing firms to compress wages under quite general conditions. Our laboratory experiments, on the other hand, show that --while …

productivity of women is less than that of men, but not by enough to fully explain the gap in wages, a result that is consistent … deferred wages. We find a productivity premium for marriage equal to that of the wage premium, and a productivity premium for …

practices and increased wage inequality. Finally, we examine the relationship between organizational structure and employment … changes and find that some practices, such as self-managed teams, are associated with greater employment reductions, while … other practices, such as the percentage of workers involved in job rotation, are associated with lower employment reductions …