An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of
educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The …

Barely a day goes by without some expert telling us how the continental European
economies are about to disintegrate unless their labor markets become more flexible …

Abstract Using Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) microdata over the 1980–2010
period, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender wage …

A central organizing framework of the voluminous recent literature studying changes in the
returns to skills and the evolution of earnings inequality is what we refer to as the canonical …

We study a longitudinal sample of over one million French workers from more than five
hundred thousand employing firms. We decompose real total annual compensation per …

This essay discusses the effect of technical change on wage inequality. I argue that the
behavior of wages and returns to schooling indicates that technical change has been skill …

Executive compensation and its relation to that of rank and file employees are vital areas of
strategy research. This study contributes to our understanding of cross‐national differences …

During the last few decades, human dynamics, institutional change, political relations and
the global environment have become successively more intertwined. While increased global …

Mothers' employment and earnings partly depend on social policies and cultural norms
supporting women's paid and unpaid work. Previous research suggests that work–family …

We consider the gender pay gap in the United States. Both gender-specific factors, including
gender differences in qualifications and discrimination, and overall wage structure, the …