TY - RPRT AU - Hirsch, Barry TI - Wage Gaps Large and Small PY - 2008/Feb/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 3375 UR - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3375 AB - 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. KW - unions KW - imputation KW - wage differentials KW - cost-of-living KW - regulation KW - wages ER -