characterize the distribution of worker and employer wage heterogeneity across sectors. Our empirical method is general and can be … and employer components of wage heterogeneity are weakly correlated. …

We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data for young people in France and the United States to investigate … the effect of intertemporal changes in an individual's status vis-…-vis the real minimum wage on employment transition … employment effects in general, and very strong effects on workers employed at the minimum wage. In the French case, albeit …

most important source of wage variation in France. Firm-effects, while important, are not as important as person …-effects. At the level of firms, we find that enterprises that hire high-wage workers are more productive but not more profitable … intensive. We also find that person-effects explain 92% of inter-industry wage differentials. …

part that reflects their external opportunity wage and a part that reflects their internal wage rate. Using these … components of compensation we investigate the extent to which firm-size wage differentials and inter-industry wage differentials … are due to variability in the external wage (person effects) versus variability in the internal wage (firm effects). For …

We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of … changes in the real minimum wage on an individual's employment status. We find that movements in both French and American real … minimum wage. In the French case, a 1% increase in the real minimum wage decreases the future employment probability of a man …