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Wage Gaps Large and Small

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Hirsch, Barry () (Georgia State University)

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The law of one wage does not strictly hold, nor should it be expected to hold, in contemporary labor markets. The law of one wage, however, provides a surprisingly good first approximation of the structure of U.S. wages. This generalization is drawn from research on a diverse set of topics: the Mincerian wage equation and earnings imputation, union wage differentials, product market regulation and the labor market, wages in male and female jobs, the wage effects of military service, and interarea wages and cost-of-living.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 3375.

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Publication status: published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2008, 74 (4), 915-933
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Keywords: unions; imputation; wage differentials; cost-of-living; regulation; wages;

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J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General
J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
J4 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets
J51 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects

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