U.S. imports of manufactured goods increased rapidly between 1975 and 1985. During the same period, real wages of U … industries and contributed to the sluggish growth of aggregate manufacturing wages. …

Using two decades of annual data, we explore the links between real exchange rates and employment, wages and overtime … not have large effects on numbers of jobs or on hours worked. More substantial effects are picked up in industry wages …, especially for industries characterized by low price-over-cost markup ratios, and in overtime wages and overtime employment. The …

.S. manufacturing sector. Ordinary least squares estimates of the effect of rents per worker on wages are positive and significant, but … industry financial situation on wages. We do this using the U.S. input-output tables to isolate exogenous variation in an …

and an overlap statistic to U.S. weekly full-time wages from 1969 to 1993. …