HG Lewis - Handbook of labor economics, 1986 - Elsevier
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 …
D Card, J Heining, P Kline - The Quarterly journal of economics, 2013 - academic.oup.com
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 …
B Western, J Rosenfeld - American Sociological Review, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …
GJ Borjas - Journal of labor Economics, 1985 - journals.uchicago.edu
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 …