However, one study found a wage premium for women with very young children.
This may have been in part caused by either a wage premium or technical inefficiencies or a combination of both.
Thus, the net scale benefit is initially positive, whether or not we adjust for the wage premium.
THE wage premium for a college degree has soared.
As more young people conclude that they should go to college, the wage premium will narrow.
This should have signaled that the days of ever-rising wage premiums for people with higher education were over.
These wage premiums are borne by American consumers.
"Now we are chipping away at that wage premium."
Wachter's wage premium amounts to only $2.3 billion for the delivery function alone.
The postal data for calculating the wage premium comes from the above mentioned paper.