We look at managerial and production wages in countries that di er in size and relative endowments. Production labor is assumed to be a variable input composed of tradable tasks, while managerial labor is a xed, non-tradable input. Task performance is subject to increasing returns to scale on the country level, as in Grossman & Rossi-Hansberg (2010). We rst analyze country size and relative end...

The author uses longitudinal data to study the effects of industry growth and decline on wage changes between 1976 and 2001. He finds that over this period, workers who were initially in industries that subsequently expanded enjoyed faster wage growth than other workers. Moreover, wage growth was strongly related to employment changes in industries the individual was likely to move to: that is,...

We explore the relative productivities and wages of worker groups over a 20 year period following the transition in Hungary. Due to the economic transition, firms may have become more efficient in terms of setting wages, relative productivities and wages would converge over time. The linked employer-employee dataset allows us to control for selection bias at the occupation, firm, region, and in...

In this paper I use longitudinal data to study the effects of changes in industrial composition on wages during the 1970s and 1980s. I find that over ten year periods, workers who are initially in industries that subsequently expand have faster wage growth. Also, wage growth is strongly related to employment changes in industries the individual is likely to move to. These effects are larger dur...

Prior research on parenthood effects has typically used single-sex models and estimated average effects. By contrast, we estimate population-level variability in partners' changes in housework hours, paid work hours, occupation traits, and wages after becoming parents, and we explore whether one partner's adjustment offsets or supplements the other's. We find tradeoffs between spouses on paid w...

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In this paper, we first present a simple theoretical model of globalization between similar countries to motivate the empirical work that follows. Specifically, we examine the linkages between trade volumes and relative wages in a specialization model along the lines of Ethier (1982). The core of the empirical analysis involves bivariate time-series analysis. There we find some evidence of a re...