The paper shows that for severe enough search frictions, a market for employed workers with wage gains emerges despite the presence of adverse selection. Asymmetric information about a worker's productivity between the worker's cur-rent employer and the outside market enables the current

Abstract: The 1940s marked a turning point in the labor market history of African-American women, characterized by sharp declines in agricultural and domestic service employment, a significant rise in formal sector employment, and large wage gains compared to white women. Using a semi

"rmamf4 This paper uses wage evidence to investigate the ability of the Teamsters Union to capture a share of regulatory rents in the trucking industry. Previous work has documented the existence of monopoly rerits in the motor carrier industry, and has linked these to economic regulation

that the “before” wages of workers who are new to city contract work following the ordinance are significantly higher, conditional on observable skills, than the “before ” wages of city contract workers who preceded the ordinance. We estimate that the intended wage gain for workers is dissipated by roughly 40

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The main goal of this paper is to analyze theoretical and empirical links between job-tenure and short-term mobility wage gains. Standard theo-retical approaches examining this subject (search theory, job-matching and on-the-job training models) predict a negative correlation between

-transition country. Job mobility theories like matching and on-the-job search theory imply for a non-transition country that voluntary job changes are associated with wage gains, which decrease in experience. Involuntary job changes instead should rather be associated with wage losses, which in absolute terms rise

estimates imply significant gains to raising the current level of unemployment insurance but highlight the need for more research on the determinants of reservation wages. Our approach is intuitive and complements those based on Baily’s (1978) test. Some advantages of our test are that it uses less

impact of trade reform on employment in developing countries. Finally, we analyze evidence on the relationship between trade reform and rising wage inequality, focusing on the 1985 Mexican trade reform. Wage inequality in Mexico rose after the reform, which is puzzling in a Heckscher--Ohlin context

Abstract: This paper uses unique employer-employee matched administrative data files to determine that firm and industry employment dynamics play significant roles in the earnings gains of workers who change jobs and in different ways across the business cycle. Among the more notable results