There is a high labor turnover rate in the construction industry, which negatively impacts the
productivity and performance of construction businesses. Although various theories and …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents the empirical studies of the union/nonunion
relative wage differential, or wage gap as Mincer has termed it, in the United States for the …

This book started from our discussions of a paradox. Yet despite its importance it has been
curiously little discussed in the academic literature. On the one hand, the last century of …

Rising profitability and market valuations of US businesses, sluggish wage growth and a
declining labor share of income, and reduced unemployment and inflation, have defined the …

Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the
role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely …

We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases
in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and …

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of decomposition methods that have been
developed since the seminal work of Oaxaca and Blinder in the early 1970s. These methods …

From 1973 to 2007, private sector union membership in the United States declined from 34
to 8 percent for men and from 16 to 6 percent for women. During this period, inequality in …

This paper presents a semiparametric procedure to analyze the effects of institutional and
labor market factors on recent changes in the US distribution of wages. The effects of these …

This paper reexamines the empirical basis for two" facts" that seem to be found in most cross-
section studies of immigrant earnings:(1) the earnings of immigrants grow rapidly as they …