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 …

contributor to the lower wages paid to black and Hispanic men than to white men with similar individual characteristics. Our …

We present new and rich evidence on intersectional discrimination in labor markets, focusing on wages in the …

wages that remains unexplained after including a wide array of proxies for productivity. What is absent from the residual … - is any directly observable measure of productivity with which to adjust differentials in wages in trying to infer whether … be compared with wages. Any of the variables that differ across groups and are unobserved in the residual wage regression …

-discriminatory explanations for sex differences in labor markets, in particular differences in wages and occupational choice. Although there is …

This paper explores the effects of living wages on low-wage workers and low-income families. Using data for 1996 … distributional effects, finding that living wages help families slightly below and above the poverty line without increasing the … living wages stem from income gains for those with higher wages or skills who are initially in poor families rather than for …

We investigate the impact of union strength on changes in nonunion wages and employment. The prevailing model in this … area is the threat model, which predicts that increases in union strength cause increases in nonunion wages and decreases … threat) are associated with increases in the nonunion wage. Furthermore, increases in union wages appear to decrease, rather …

-level production functions and wage equations, and thus to compare relative marginal products and relative wages for various groups of … workers. The data and empirical framework lead to new evidence on numerous questions regarding the determination of wages …, questions that hinge on the relationship between wages and marginal products of workers in different demographic groups. These …

-level production functions and wage equations, and thus to compare relative marginal products and relative wages for various groups of … workers. The data and empirical framework lead to new evidence on numerous questions regarding the determination of wages …, questions that hinge on the relationship between wages and marginal products of workers in different demographic groups. These …