The era of wage stretching has been a current focus, but the authors direct attention here to a decade of extraordinary wage compression--the 1940s. Wages narrowed by education, job experience, and occupation, and compression occurred within cells. The 90-10 differential in the log of wages for...

Current concern with the impact of new technologies on the wage structure motivates this study. We offer evidence that technology-skill and capital-skill (relative) complementarities existed in manufacturing early in this century and were related to the adoption of electric motors and particular...