women's spending on beauty-enhancing goods and services. We find that beauty raises women's earnings (and to a lesser extent …

Educational Longitudinal Survey respondents. For females, adolescent drinking and adult wages are unrelated, and negative …

incidence of marriage of young women (age 16-24). We employ a two-stage methodology. First, across individuals, marriage is …

assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor … force participation rates work substantially more than women coming from countries with lower relative female labor supply …

by market wages), as women's total work is further below men's where their relative wages are lower. Additional tests … northern countries on four continents, including the United States, there is no difference -- men and women do the same amount … believe that women perform more total work. The facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured …

implications of exchange rates, reporting that industry wages are significantly more responsive than industry employment. We offer … the main mechanism for exchange rate effects on wages occurs through job turnover and the strong consequences this has for … the wages of workers undergoing such job transitions. By contrast, workers who remain with the same employer experience …

paid at least the wages and benefits that are "prevailing" for similar work in or near the locality in which the project is … located, have been the focus of an extensive policy debate. We find that the relative wages of construction workers decline …

of monopsony. We use an exogenous change in wages at Veterans Affairs hospitals as a natural experiment to investigate … responded to the VA wage change by changing their own wages …

-section comparisons of wages and immigration in the 1980 and 1990 Censuses yield unstable results casting doubt on the validity of these …