inequality and international migration. This paper explores the skill premium and its link to exports in Latin America, thus … linking the skill premium to the emerging literature on the structure of trade and development. Using data on employment and …

results raise questions about several predominant models of nonprofit wage-setting …

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 …

level productivity and wage outcomes and estimate production functions and wage equation using both cross sectional and …

Prevailing wage laws, which require that construction workers employed by private contractors on public projects be … slightly after the repeal of a state prevailing wage law. However, the small overall impact of law repeal masks substantial … union wage premium and a significant narrowing of the black/nonblack wage differential for construction workers …

unobserved heterogeneity in researcher ability leads to bias in the context of hedonic wage and productivity regressions which do … possible to calculate the wage- Science curve for individual scientists, controlling for ability level. The methodology is …. For example, firms who allow their employees to publish extract, on average, a 25% wage discount. The results are robust …

's wage rates during the 1980s and 1990s. Previous studies have found evidence of sizeable and persistent rates of return to … working while enrolled in school, especially high school, on subsequent wage growth. Such findings may represent causal …