The high-tech boom of the last two decades overlapped with increasing wage inequalities between men and women in the United States. The extraordinary growth of high-tech industries increased the demand for college-educated workers, thus pushing up their wages. However, these industries tended to employ mainly skilled men, so similarly qualified women may have been left out of the employment and...

We analyzed in detail the wages of Latinos of Mexican origin, Central/South Americans, and Puerto Ricans. The wage structure facing second and thirdand higher-generation Latinos is very similar to the wage structure of thirdand higher-generation White workers. Unlike African American workers, more than half of the native Latino/White wage gap can be accounted for by the lower educational attain...

Panel data from the United Kingdom are used to estimate a wage curve that allows simultaneously for time, individual, and spatial effects and which thus finesses the problem of grouped data bias. Once allowance is made for the multilevel and crossclassified nature of the data, estimates of the unemployment elasticity of the wage are seen to be volatile and imprecise. JEL Classification: J30

Abstract We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography, market structure, growth and regional inequality. provide conditions for existence uniqueness of a equilibrium, the endogenous emergence industry clusters. Spatial variations knowledge spillovers lead to concentration more innovative firms. Migration however, limit acti...

We offer a unified framework to analyze the determination of employment, employee effort, wages, profit sharing and capital structure when firms face stochastic revenue shocks. We apply a generalized Nash bargaining solution, which extends the wage bargaining literature by incorporating efficiency wage considerations, profit sharing and capital structure. The profit sharing instrument is demons...

This paper reports direct evidence on how recent changes in technology are related to changes in wage gaps by schooling, experience, and gender. Wage gaps by schooling in the full-year 1979 and 1989 Current Population Surveys increased the most in industries with rising R&D intensity and accelerating growth in the capital-labor ratio. Estimates of the impact of hightech capital are mixed, with ...

quantifying spatial structure is one of the most important components, describing natural ecosystems and their biodiversity. in this study, a set of indices and functions related to spatial structure using 102 established plots with an area of 1000 m2 were presented. to achieve spatial structure of carpinus-fagus type, a set of indices (clark & evans, uniform angle, shannon-wiener, mingling and...

This paper argues that a risk averse of workers after-tax reservation wage the difference between her reservation wage and the tax needed to fund the unemployment insurance system when liquidity constraint binds exists and it is unique. The optimality of unemployment insurance based on the responsiveness of reservation wage to unemployment benefit shows the disincentive effect, i.e. higher unem...