instrumental variables to deal with endogenity of household income by observing that commuting may affect wages only when workers …

Multinational firms transfer to their foreign affiliates superior technology, leading to higher productivity of their … workers and therefore to higher wages, or so the often cited rent-sharing theory of multinational firms explains. But studies … positively related to wages and are more prevalent in foreign than in domestically owned firms (for example size, capital …

total factor productivity relationship. Static externalities refer to current period scale or industry-size effects which … spillovers associated with spillovers from these two types of knowledge externalities. The magnitude of own-region impacts and … other-region (spillovers) can be assessed using scalar summary measures of the own- and cross-partial derivatives from the …

' survival and employment growth disentangling horizontal and vertical spillovers. We investigate these issues both for firms …. We consider the heterogeneity of both MNEs and domestic firms (global engagement, firm and sector dimension, productivity … favor of positive spillovers is not overwhelming. In the case of Italy, the survival of domestic firms is positively …

analyse the link between sectoral resource allocation, low productivity growth and stagnant real wages. My results suggest … raises growth of technology, labor productivity and real wages. I show, however, that a slowdown in productivity and … immediate phase following the shock, labor productivity and real wages stagnate as employment gains are initially …

Using the data covering the time period from 1996 till 2011, I estimate a spatial autoregressive model of wages' growth … rates across Russian cities. I find that wages in Russian cities exhibit convergence. I also test whether city population … wages, but diverge in size. …

strong evidence that lower unemployment benefit has an adverse effect on wages. We use panel data to identify and estimate …. In eastern Germany there is no systematic difference between men and women but the negative impact on wages is confirmed. …

We examine whether income and unemployment risks are compensated by individual wages. Using a portfolio approach we … show that the marginal income risk effect on wages is always positive whereas the marginal unemployment risk effect …

is declining while that of the highly educated is rising. This study estimates the impact of cohort size on wages using … effect of cohort size on individual wages rather than on the average wage of a specific age-education group which allows … controlling for potentially confounding effects at the individual level. The effect of cohort size on male wages is identified …

wages, the relationship between wages and health is less clear-cut. What makes it most difficult to disentangle these … effects is that education, experience, health and wages are interrelated. To deal with these issues, we implement an Efficient … experience and health have positive impacts on wages. …