Anecdotal evidence suggests that uncontrolled managers let wages rise above competitive levels.
Testing this popular perception has proven difficult, however, because independent variation in the
extent of managerial discretion is needed. In this paper, we use states’ passage of anti-takeover

This paper empirically examines the role of social networks in welfare participation. Social theorists from across the political spectrum have argued that network effects have given rise to a culture of poverty. Empirical work, however, has found it difficult to…

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Wales and Woodland (1983) have proposed an econometric model to
deal with non-negativity constraints in systems of demand equations.
This paper points out the relationship between the Wales—Woodland model
and the "simultaneous Tobit" model of Amemiya (1974). This relationship
is…

In The Wage Qurve, David G. Blanchflower and Andrew J. Oswald argue that there is
a fundamental negative relation between wages and the unemployment rate in a worker’s local
labor market. Blanchflower and Oswald use large-scale micro data sets to…

Unlike existing models which rely heavily on assumptions regarding unions’
distributional preferences, we present a very simple model in which union
seniority-layoff rules and rising seniority-wage profiles result from
optimal price discrimination against the firm. Surprisingly, even when
cash transfers…

Using data on adult male workers we first investigate the
incremental effect of a year of schooling on unemployed hours,
and use this calculation to explain the difference in the pro-
portional effects of schooling on earnings and wages. Schooling

This paper examines whether employees who use a computer at work earn
a higher wage rate than otherwise similar workers who do not use a computer
at work. The analysis primarily relies on data from the Current Population
Survey and…