Recent research has suggested that the long-observed negative association between seniority and pay among college faculty largely reflects below-average research productivity of senior faculty-a possibility that most earlier studies did not examine. Overlooked in both waves of studies, however,...

Relying on CPS data, the authors estimate the union wage premium--the amount by which wages of union workers exceeded those of nonunion workers in the same industry conditional on worker characteristics--for 32 industries over the period 1971-99. The dispersion of union premiums across...

The authors explore the effects of organizational change on employee well-being using multivariate analyses of linked employer-employee data for Britain, with particular emphasis on whether unions moderate these effects. Nationally representative data consist of 13,500 employees in 1,238...

The authors analyze explanations for firm- or establishment-size effects on wages. One theory is that each firm faces an upward sloping supply curve for labor, implying that the number of any particular type of worker should matter for his or her level of pay, rather than the total number of...