Using panel data from 23 OECD countries, I document that wages grow more over the life-cycle in countries where job …-to-job mobility is more common. A life-cycle theory of job shopping and accumulation of skills on the job highlights that a more fluid … comparable cross-country training data, finding support for the theory …

raised its sales targets and rewards for insurance agents greatly in 2015, we find that increased incentives induced agents … incentive system. The greater non-linear incentives raised agent incomes and low-ered turnover and substantially increased firm …

-based explanations of wage changes consistent with increasing variance in wages as well as increases in mean wages as suggested by skill …

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 …

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

Major strands of recent macroeconomic theory hinge on the relation of workers' efforts to their wages, but there has … include detailed time diaries to examine how changes in the use of time on the job affect wages. Additional time spent by the …

incentives framed as both "losses" and "gains" increase productivity for both individuals and teams. In addition, teams more …