A popular and highly politicized theme today is that US workers are falling behind as their real wages fall and income …, and at evidence on whether workers real wages have been falling, or perhaps only manufacturing wages. It also examines … seeing how real wages are changing over the recent past. The evidence here provides a perspective on why some analysts might …

disparities in wages. Twenty years after the transition there are strong disagreements about whether there have been gains and how …

of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the lowest wage in the market exceeds the minimum wage …, and subsequent abolition of the minimum wage does not affect wages. The model has multiple equilibria as a result of the …

We analyze the impact of unemployment benefits and minimum wages using an equilibrium search model which allows for … estimation method uses readily available aggregate data on marginal distributions of unemployment durations as well as wages and …

to wage floors. Wage floors exist because of high unemployment benefits or binding minimum wages. The productivity …

on wages conceal significant differences between tasks and technologies and that these differences reflect unobserved …

studies how having an outside source of health insurance affects wages by using variation in health insurance access that … evidence that extending health insurance to young adults raises their wages. The increases in wages can be explained by …

laws reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of …

associated rather with increased wages and employment. …