authors analyze how the supply of skills and legal origin of the country affect the wage setting process. The wage analysis … just for returns to education, but also for the wage setting process more generally. In particular, in civil-law countries …, returns to seniority are rewarded only after a certain age. Third, workers exercise some power in the wage setting process but …

"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 …

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 …

, 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 …