the labor market propagate to the rest of the economy through changes in employment, wages and local prices and how this … policy. -- Wages ; general equilibrium …

Wages have been spreading out across workers over time - or in other words, the 90th/50th wage ratio has risen over … calculations of productivity by skill level for the U.S., we show that the distributions of both wages and productivity have spread … exists, such that gains in aggregate productivity, or GDP per person, have resulted in higher wages for workers at the top …

. First, a highly skilled workforce is the engine of urban development, increasing urban wages and population. Second, big …

employer-employee data to study differences in wages and labor productivity across regions. We apply our framework to data from … Germany: twenty-five years after the reunification, real wages in the East are still 26 percent lower than those in the West …