the period for both wages and earnings, and that mobility is declining over time. Hence, this paper suggests that while …

The entry of married women into the labor force and the rise in women's relative wages are amongst the most notable … discontinued growth in female labor supply and wages since the 1990s is a consequence of growing inequality. Our hypothesis is that … their participation and wages. We show that the slowdown in participation and wage growth was concentrated among women …

This paper investigates three hypotheses to account for the observed shifts in U.S. relative wages of less educated … inequality among these groups but it could have contributed to the decline in wages for the least educated. Instead, support is …

cross-sectional data sources to construct synthetic panel data on consumption, labor supply and wages. We find that low …-frequency movements in the cohort-education structure of pre-tax hourly wages drove large changes in the distribution of household …

concentrated industries. We develop a simple model in which the impact of foreign competition on the relative wages of an economy … automobiles is much more deleterious to the wages of the less educated than import competition in an industry such as apparel. We … then test our hypothesis using a panel data set on relative wages across SMSAs. We reinterpret our model as a model of …