For more than 80 years, many macroeconomic analyses have been premised on the assumption that workers' nominal wage … measurement of frequent wage cuts might be an artifact of reporting error. This article summarizes a more recent wave of studies … based on more accurate wage data from payroll records and pay slips. By and large, these studies indicate that, except in …

The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a … positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked … women tend to be over-represented in this sector, we expect unskilled women to suffer a relatively large wage and …

potential for wage-push inflation. However, real wages are falling rapidly at present and, prior to that, real wages had been … stagnant for some time. We show that unemployment is not key to understanding wage formation in the USA and hasn t been since … not working significantly reduce wage pressures in the United States. This finding holds in panel data with state and year …