Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of Economics, 2011.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of Economics, 2008.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of Economics, 2009.

Typical measures of wages, such as average hourly earnings, fail to capture cyclicality in the effective cost of labor in the presence of (i) cyclical fluctuations in the quality of worker-firm matches, or (ii) wages being smoothed within employment matches. To address both concerns, we estimate...