The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study is set in an economy with close to complete union coverage where real wages have grown continuously in all parts of the wage distribution for the past 15 years, and where the...

The rise in college wage premium is well documented, though with shifting sands of consensus on its main causes. This paper intends to investigate if, and how, intangible capital drives wage inequality, and to what extent the outcomes can be shaped by pre-distribution policies. We construct a...