This paper presents a wage series for unskilled English women workers from 1260 to 1850 and compares it with existing … evidence for men.  Our series cast light on long run trends in women's agency and wellbeing, revealing an intractable, indeed … widening gap between women and men's remuneration in the centuries following the Black Death.  This informs several debates …

This paper presents a wage series for unskilled English women workers from 1260 to 1850 and compares it with existing … evidence for men. Our series cast light on long run trends in women’s agency and wellbeing, revealing an intractable, indeed … widening gap between women and men’s remuneration in the centuries following the Black Death. This informs several recent …

that right includes the ability to bargain over wages; and whether public-sector workers have the right to strike. …

the private sector from entering into certain kinds of labor contracts. Federal labor law mandates that unions represent …

The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study … is set in an economy with close to complete union coverage where real wages have grown continuously in all parts of the … estimated elasticity of wages. Wage adjustments are larger for employees with high unemployment risk and for new hires entering …

from confounded product-market concentration. Analysis extends beyond wages to rates of employment-based health insurance …

2008, union workers reflected trends in the workforce as a whole toward a greater share of women, Latinos, Asian Pacific …

The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study … is set in an economy with close to complete union coverage where real wages have grown continuously in all parts of the … estimated elasticity of wages. Wage adjustments are larger for employees with high unemployment risk and for new hires entering …

% to 73% in six years, and the decline for women was considerably larger. This employment fall is possibly the worst of any …, using the 1990-1996 survey years of the German Socio-Economic Panel. Individuals over fifty and women have much longer non …