of wage cyclicality. We present evidence that elements of perceived "fairness" or "reference points" in reservation wages …Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment … rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical search and matching model. This paper provides …

This paper investigates the effect of minimum wages on employment using a panel of US state-based data. We estimate a … significant effects of minimum wages on youth employment. Unlike many other studies we find also significant effects on aggregate …

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

finds that decoupling has been overstated and cannot be used to justify redressing the balance between wages and profits … education distribution will boost productivity and real wages. …

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

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 …) the wedge between compensation (which includes employer-provided benefits like pensions and health insurance) and wages …

Common wisdom states that teenage childbearing reduces schooling, labour market experience and adult wages. However …