On the link between investment in on-the-job training and earnings dispersion : the case of France / Audrey Dumas, Said Hanchane and Jacques Silber -- Employee training and wage dispersion : white- and blue-collar workers in Britain / Filipe Almeida-Santos, Yekaterina Chzhen and Karen Mumford -- Income inequality, income mobility, and social welfare for urban and rural households of China and the United States / Niny Khor and John Pencavel -- Why are jobs designed the way they are? / Michael Gibbs, Alec Levenson and Cindy Zoghi -- Is seniority-based pay used as a motivational device? : evidence from plant-level data / Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose E. Galdon-Sanchez and Maia Güell -- The promotion dynamics of American executives / Christian Belzil and Michael Bognanno -- Self-selection models for public and private sector job satisfaction / Simon Luechinger, Alois Stutzer and Rainer Winkelmann -- The survival and growth of establishments : does gender segregation matter? / Helena Persson and Gabriella Sjögren Lindquist -- Futile and effective ways to combat wage discrimination / Yuval Shilony and Yossef Tobol -- Patterns of nominal and real wage rigidity / Louis N. Christofides and Paris Nearchou.