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View article: The Attainment of Pay Equity Between the Sexes by Legal Means: An Economic Analysis
The Attainment of Pay Equity Between the Sexes by Legal Means: An Economic Analysis Open
The purpose of this Article is to present an analysis of the gap between men's and women's wages with particular emphasis on the likely effects of various existing and proposed legal remedies. Part I sets out a simple "ideal" statistical m…
View article: Wage adjustment in efficient long-term employment relationships
Wage adjustment in efficient long-term employment relationships Open
We present a model in which efficient long-term employment relationships are sustained by wage adjustments prompted by shocks to idiosyncratic productivity and the arrival of outside job offers. In accordance with casual and formal evidenc…
View article: How Prevalent Is Downward Rigidity in Nominal Wages? International Evidence from Payroll Records and Pay Slips
How Prevalent Is Downward Rigidity in Nominal Wages? International Evidence from Payroll Records and Pay Slips Open
For more than 80 years, many macroeconomic analyses have been premised on the assumption that workers’ nominal wage rates cannot be cut. Contrary evidence from household surveys reasonably has been discounted on the grounds that the measur…
View article: How Prevalent Is Downward Rigidity in Nominal Wages? International Evidence from Payroll Records and Pay Slips
How Prevalent Is Downward Rigidity in Nominal Wages? International Evidence from Payroll Records and Pay Slips Open
For more than 80 years, many macroeconomic analyses have been premised on the assumption that workers' nominal wage rates cannot be cut. Contrary evidence from household surveys reasonably has been discounted on the ground that the measure…
View article: How Prevalent Is Downward Rigidity in Nominal Wages? International Evidence from Payroll Records and Pay Slips
How Prevalent Is Downward Rigidity in Nominal Wages? International Evidence from Payroll Records and Pay Slips Open
For more than 80 years, many macroeconomic analyses have been premised on the assumption that workers' nominal wage rates cannot be cut.Contrary evidence from household surveys reasonably has been discounted on the ground that the measurem…
New Directions in Measuring Intergenerational Mobility: Introduction Open
This Feature contains seven new articles that exemplify several of the cutting edges in research on intergenerational transmission of socio‐economic status. Section 1 of this introduction briefly summarises the articles and highlights some…
View article: New Directions in Measuring Intergenerational Mobility
New Directions in Measuring Intergenerational Mobility Open
In this paper we overview some recent literature that exemplify several of the cutting edges in research on intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status and highlight some cross-cutting themes. We also offer a few suggestions for…
View article: Wage Adjustment in the Great Recession and Other Downturns: Evidence from the United States and Great Britain
Wage Adjustment in the Great Recession and Other Downturns: Evidence from the United States and Great Britain Open
Using 1979-2012 CPS data for the United States and 1975-2012 NES data for Great Britain, we study wage behavior in both countries, with particular attention to the Great Recession. Real wages are procyclical in both countries, but the proc…
View article: What Do We Know So Far about Multigenerational Mobility?
What Do We Know So Far about Multigenerational Mobility? Open
What Do We Know So Far about Multigenerational Mobility?1 2 1 See, for example, the passage on intergenerational mobility in the undergraduate labor economics textbook by Borjas (2013, section 7.6). 2 Even earlier occupational mobility stu…