This paper examines the effect of earnings taxes on the variability of wages over time. We estimate a "hedonic wage … and temporal variation of hourly wages. On the basis of these utility function parameters, we predict that lowering the …

This paper argues that rigid wages cannot provide the underpinnings of a universally valid theory of the business cycle …, simply because wages are not universally rigid. Several different statistical techniques suggest that wage rates in the U … greater flexibility in wages, these two countries also exhibit more stable employment behavior over the business cycle. In …

literature for over thirty years. The wages and employment o typographers are examined to see whether they can be usefully … characterized as the outcome of a process by which the union maximizes an objective function containing wages and employment and is … wages and employment of these workers compared with our more general formulation …

they face and their family structure. We study wage risk in the UK and show that the persistence and riskiness of wages … alternative processes for wages: a canonical one and a flexible one that allows for the much richer dynamics that we document in …

declining membership numbers, unions are able to raise wages substantially over the equivalent non-union wage. Unions in other …, are also able to raise wages by significant amounts. In countries where union wage settlements frequently spill over into …

rate, and appears to be untrended in both countries. Union wages are sticky. c) The size of the wage gap varies across …