We analyze a database with information on wages and skills across firms in a sample of over 50,000 managers between 1986 and 1992. Our measure of skills and responsibility is an unusually good measure of human capital. We find that wage inequality increased both within and between firms between...

We examine two factors frequently thought to be changing the U.S. workplace, high performance work practices and computer use, and their relationships with pay using a national probability sample of U.S. establishments. The analysis controls for both organizational and individual characteristics...

We examine the relationship between wages and skill requirements in a sample of over 50,000 managers in 39 companies between 1986 and 1992. The data include an unusually good measure of job requirements and skills that can proxy for human capital. We find that wage inequality increased both...