In this paper, the relationship between labor-market segmentation and the gender wage gap is analyzed with data from the 1998 Swiss Wage Structure Survey. It is shown that in three selected industries (health-care industry, catering industry, banking and insurance industry) the unexplained and potentially discriminatory gender wage differential is substantially larger in the primary than in the...

This paper examines the role of persistent effects of past labor market conditions in explaining trends in the college-high school wage gap in the US. I document increases in the wage gap for older workers since the late 1990s, which are larger than those predicted by standard explanations and are consistent with an important role for persistence in the wage gap. Using a semi-parametric estimat...

Between 1979 and 2007 a strong positive monotonic relationship between wage inequality and city size has developed. This paper investigates the links between this emergent city size inequality premium and the contemporaneous nationwide increase in wage inequality. After controlling for the skill composition of the workforce across cities of different sizes, we show that at least 23 percent of t...

This paper attempts to explain the increase in inequality that has been observed in all transition economies by constructing a simple model of change in composition of employment during the transition. The change consists of the ‘hollowing-out’ of the state-sector middle class as it moves into either the ‘rich’ private sector or the ‘poor’ unemployed sector. The predictions of the model are con...

in this paper, i present additional information for policy-makers and researchers to consider in response to the view proposed by potts et al that “the pill is mightier than the sword.” i identify states with both high rates of terrorism and a youth bulge and discuss correlates of both these societal characteristics. the research examined supports the view that factors other than access to fami...