than wage dispersion, due to a rise in the correlation between wages and hours worked. Over the same period, inequality in …-sectional distributions of hours worked, consumption and earnings. From 1967 to 1996 cross-sectional dispersion of earnings increased more …

Data on the life-cycle profiles of inequality in wages, earnings, hours worked and consumption contains precious …

This paper analyses the welfare effects of changes in cross-sectional wage dispersion, using a class of tractable … productive workers. We find that the observed rise in wage dispersion in the United States over the past three decades implies a …

equilibrium joint distribution over wages, hours and consumption. With these expressions in hand, we show that all the structural … wages and hours, and cross-sectional data on consumption. We estimate the model on CEX and PSID data for the U.S. economy …

imports, and an ambiguous literature on immigration which implies a small overall impact on the wages of the average native …

unionized workforce. We develop a simple efficiency wage model, with a tradeoff between higher wages for workers and more … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a … variety of data sets, we examine the implications of the model for the relationship between the employment and wages of …

substantiate the union’s claim of ‘full wage compensation’, however: reductions in standard hours were accompanied by a relative …

We present identification and estimation results for the 'collective' model of labour supply in which there are … approach are not. The estimates of the sharing rule show that wages have a strong influence on bargaining power within couples. …