research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …

rationalize this by assuming that diosyncratic non-pecuniary conditions interact with money wages in workers' decisions to work …

rationalize this by assuming that idiosyncratic non-pecuniary conditions interact with money wages in workers' decisions to work …

access applicants' salary histories while bargaining over wages, they can take advantage of past inequities, perpetuating … SHBs, employers posted wages more often and increased pay for job changers by about 5%, with larger increases for women (8 …

educational outcomes. Ethnic groups also show distinct patterns of wages and wage gaps, and there is evidence of a 'sticky floor …

This paper investigates the effects of legal minimum wages on wages, employment, hours worked and monthly earnings …% increase in minimum wages lowers employment in the covered sector by 1.09% and decreases the average number of hours worked of … largest impact on the wages and employment of covered sector workers is in the lower half of the distribution. …

by rigorously addressing the question as to whether changes in minimum wages can change the inequality of the … wages in the 1980s and 1990s acted as a countervailing force to the unequalizing effect of globalization. Using annual data … on workers from the 1987-1997 household surveys, it is shown that changes in the legal minimum wages did indeed have an …

shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … largest for lower-skilled individuals. We show that domestic manufacturing employment declined much more in countries that saw …

trait, beauty, to infer the extent to which parents' physical characteristics transmit inequality across generations … child's looks. A large data set of U.S. siblings shows a correlation of their beauty consistent with the same expression of … from the literatures describing the impact of beauty on earnings and the intergenerational elasticity of income suggests …