education distribution will boost productivity and real wages. … Pessoa and John Van Reenen. Their investigation of claims that wage growth has become 'decoupled' from productivity growth … finds that decoupling has been overstated and cannot be used to justify redressing the balance between wages and profits …

It is widely believed that in the US wage growth has fallen massively behind productivity growth. Recently, it has also … than median wages. We distinguish between "net decoupling" - the difference in growth of GDP per hour deflated by the GDP … hour deflated by the GDP deflator and median wages deflated by a measure of consumer price inflation. We would expect that …

of labour. But, existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers in the UK (e … an increase in immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled time series … of British cross-sectional micro data of observations on male wages and employment from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s …

This paper is concerned with the relationship between wages and unemployment. Using UK regions and individuals as the … unemployment and wages or wage changes? Second, can we identify the relationship completely by looking at regional wages and … regional unemployment or do regional wages depend on aggregate unemployment as well? Third, are wages influenced only by the …

labor share, employment and wages respond to privatization and other regulatory changes. We exploit cross-country panel data …

expected to have only small allocational consequences and that measures of base wages are more useful in drawing conclusions …