Using microdata for 22 countries over the 1985–94 period, we find that more compressed
male wage structures and lower female net supply are both associated with a lower gender …

Does an income tax harm economic efficiency more the more progressive it is? Public
economics provides a strong case for a definite 'yes'. But at least three forces may pull in the …

Oaxaca and Ransom (1999) show that a detailed decomposition of the coefficients effect is
destined to suffer from an identification problem since the detailed coefficients effect …

This book unveils a potent new approach to one of the oldest debates in political economy--
that over whether class conflict or group competition is more prevalent in politics. It goes …

The labor market consists of two tiers. Workers in the upper tier enjoy high wages, good
benefits, and employment security, and they are often unionized. Workers in the lower tier …

Domestic political conflict has been a constant companion to international trade, but the
nature of that conflict has varied greatly in Western democracies over the last two centuries …

This chapter examines the impact of wage-setting institutions and government policies on
wages and employment, focusing on the OECD countries. There is considerable evidence …

The Swedish record of enormous compression of relative wages under centralized
“solidarity” bargaining, followed by substantial decompression of wages after central …

An interview survey was designed to explore how personnel managers and senior wage
negotiators respond to popular models of the labor market. As in Blinder and Choi (1990) …

Throughout the latter part of the 20th century, the US labor market performed differently than
the labor markets of the world's other advanced industrialized societies. In the early 1970s …