than wage dispersion, due to a rise in the correlation between wages and hours worked. Over the same period, inequality in …-sectional distributions of hours worked, consumption and earnings. From 1967 to 1996 cross-sectional dispersion of earnings increased more …

Data on the life-cycle profiles of inequality in wages, earnings, hours worked and consumption contains precious …

This paper analyses the welfare effects of changes in cross-sectional wage dispersion, using a class of tractable … productive workers. We find that the observed rise in wage dispersion in the United States over the past three decades implies a …

equilibrium joint distribution over wages, hours and consumption. With these expressions in hand, we show that all the structural … wages and hours, and cross-sectional data on consumption. We estimate the model on CEX and PSID data for the U.S. economy …

Larger firms feature i) longer hours worked, ii) higher wages, and iii) smaller (larger) wage penalties for working … of hours, wages, and firm size. In the model, workers willing to work longer hours sort into larger firms that offer a … firm hours. We use the model to argue about the importance of the interaction between hours, wages, and firm size on …

a given industry, because firms paying below-market-level straight-time wages tend to award above-market-level overtime … premiums, and, conversely, firms paying above-market-level straight-time wages provide below-market-level overtime premiums …