gap. We perform an analysis of the relationship between age, wage and productivity using a matched worker-firm panel …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 …

declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and …This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U … the number of firms engaged in China-U.S. trade. These results are robust to other potential explanations of the …

In recent years wages in China have been rising and the yuan has appreciated, potentially eroding China’s cost … advantage in manufactures. This paper explores the evolution of China’s relative unit labor costs in manufacturing over 1998 …-2009. Between 1998 and 2003 China’s unit labor costs fell, but since 2003 they have increased both absolutely and relative to US …

Due to the complexity of employment protection legislation (EPL) in Germany, there is notable uncertainty about the …

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

generalized anxiety disorder detract from the employment and labor force participation of males and females; however, we do not … addressing the potential endogeneity of mental illness, we continue to find that mental illness adversely affects employment and … gains in employment for 3.2 million individuals and reduction in workplace cost of absenteeism of $18.9 billion due to …

by behavioral adjustments yet which are of considerable importance to one’s quality of life: employment, earnings and …

. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less … adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test our main hypothesis that any relative labor-market advantage of … vocational education decreases with age, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across …