results quantify the role of regional factor markets in firm productivity and location. Considering modern China as a large …

In recent years wages in China have been rising and the yuan has appreciated, potentially eroding China’s cost …

identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers’ wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …

, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …

Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find … that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while … productivity does not or does not increase at the same pace. However, other studies find no evidence of such an age related pay-productivity …

, in which firms’ job offer and workers’ job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

improvement over what can be achieved with an optimal income tax. The reason is that a graduated minimum wage requires high-productivity … workers to work more to earn the same income as low-productivity workers, which makes it more difficult for the former to … mimic the latter. In effect, a graduated minimum wage allows the low-productivity workers to benefit from second …