unions to affect nonunion wages both through the typically discussed channel of nonunion firms emulating union wages in order … indicate an important role played by union wage spillovers in lowering wages over the 1980-2010 period. We find de …

determination. In the basic set-up, UISAs induce a trade union to lower wages. This effect can also arise if (1) balanced …

human capital may be heterogeneous and where firms may offer different combinations of entry level wages and firm specific … human capital development. We allow for the the possibility that wages are match specific and that workers move jobs as a …

, we find that household characteristics explain about 25% of the dispersion in wages within an age group in all three … countries. Second, the cross-sectional variance of wages is almost linearly increasing in household age in all three countries …

height on log hourly wages in recent national surveys from three countries: Ghana, Brazil and the United States. I conclude … human capital wage effects of height compared with the OLS estimates. The OLS estimates of height effects on wages are …

high school degree). A precise assessment of the average and relative effects of immigrants on U.S. wages, however, needs … adjustment of physical capital induced by immigration, the conventional finding of immigration's impact on native wages is turned … on its head: overall immigration over the 1980- 2000 period significantly increased the average wages of U …