production, wages, and employment that have occurred over the last several decades. We investigate the following two related … hypotheses. First, that most of the recent increase in the dispersion of wages and productivity has occurred across … establishments and these changes are linked. Second, that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across establishments is …

applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require wage data, it is invariant to the way in which wages are determined …

Force Survey. This is combined with complementary industry-level data sources on value added, wages, labour and capital. We …There is a vast empirical literature of the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of … productivity) is low. Secondly, our estimates of the effects of training on wages are about half the size of the effects on …

education shows positive effects for the unemployed with respect to both the employment probability and wages. To explain the …

the U.S. is accounted for by industry effects. These industry effects stem from rising inter-industry earnings … differentials and not from changing distribution of employment across industries. We also find the rising inter-industry earnings … components of the recent literature: one focuses on firm effects and the other on occupation effects. The link via industry …