This paper explores the implications of the recent sharp rise in US wage inequality for welfare and the cross … than wage dispersion, due to a rise in the correlation between wages and hours worked. Over the same period, inequality in … from the PSID, we decompose the observed rise in wage inequality into changes in the variance of permanent, persistent and …

This paper examines whether employees who use a computer at work earn a higher wage rate than otherwise similar workers … their job earn roughly a 10 to 15 percent higher wage rate. In addition, the estimates suggest that the expansion in … average wage growth …