consumption distribution tend to earn a larger share of their nonagricultural incomes from wage labor activities. For the poorest …, low-productivity wage labor activities are important. The quantile wage regression analysis for rural Mexico shows a … rather heterogeneous impact pattern of individual characteristics across the wage distribution on monthly wages. The author …

"Do public sector workers earn a wage premium in Djibouti and are the returns to education different across the sectors …? The authors estimate private and public sector wage earnings using 1996 household survey data, while controlling for … selectivity using Heckman's two stage approach. They find that Djiboutian public sector employees earn a wage premium, independent …

"The authors provide new evidence on the impacts of trade reforms on wages and wage inequality in developing countries … wages and wage inequality. After setting up unusual historical data sets of trends in tariffs, trends in wages, and trends … in wage inequality, the evidence supports two well-known hypotheses: trade liberalization, other things being equal, (1 …

progress. Poverty estimates correlate well with region-level data on changes in agricultural wage rates. Agricultural labor …-farm employment remains largely associated with education levels and social status that are rare among the poor. However, casual labor … and self-employment in the non-farm sector reveal greater involvement by disadvantaged groups in 2004 than in the …

in Côte d'Ivoire do not seem to be much distorted. Unions may influence employment through tenure but do not seem to … influence wages directly except for vulnerable minorities that seem protected by unions. Establishment-size wage effects are … pronounced and highest for white-collar workers. This may be explained by the efficiency wage theory, so that, even in the …

, have remained high. Hazans explores the mysteries of unemployment in Latvia. He analyzes labor flows between employment …. However, neither ethnicity nor gender seems to matter as far as the transition from employment to unemployment is concerned … methods by the unemployed indicates that two target groups of state employment policy (young unemployed and long …