wages being earned by workers employed in the industry, controlling for worker characteristics and geographic variables. The … suggesting that reductions in trade barriers benefited the unskilled in terms of an increase in wages. …

tax (AMT) in Belgium with a focus on the impact on various distortions margins. In the process, we provide an up-to date … better off under an asset based AMT than under an income based AMT. But any decision on the AMT in Belgium is likely to be …

We provide an analysis of the 2008-2009 trade collapse using microdata from a small open economy, Belgium. First, we …

The present Paper studies the retirement incentives for elderly people in Belgium. We model the incentive structure …

of social pressures for higher wages and deflationary monetary policy, and by weaknesses in innovation and new product …

A trade union whose purpose is to raise wages above the competitive level may foster economic growth if it succeeds in … cares for wages and employment, we determine a range of trade union objectives and characterize the aggregate technology so …

insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression … balance between two offsetting forces: UI causes agents to seek higher-wage jobs, but also reduces wages by lengthening … both in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by …

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual-level data combined with industry … real wages. Hence, offshoring has contributed to a widening of the wage gap between skilled and less skilled workers. This …