wage when they are spread over a large range of wages in order to avoid specialization in low productivity jobs. …Phelps (1994) presented the case for a low-wage subsidy policy. Since the mid-1990s, France has experimented with this … strategy. This paper evaluates the e®ect of this policy on employment and also on output and welfare. We construct an …

This paper studies the effect of changes in the employment rate on labour productivity per hour, taking an empirical … changes in the employment rate structure from those of changes in the qualification structure. With the results obtained, we … practice with respect to employment rate structure and qualification level. It appears that the two effects are more or less of …

This paper evaluates the role of economic geography in explaining regional wages in China. It investigates the extent … dynamics in China. We investigate three channels through which market access might influence wages beside direct transport …

China is a big country in terms of biotech achievements. It is also a rare country demonstrating crop …

This article investigates the impact that the appreciation and the stability of the real exchange rate in China between … 1993 and 2001 have exerted on productivity growth. We give theoretical arguments explaining the impact of the real exchange … rate on productivity via its effects either on efficiency growth or on technical progress. Then for the twenty-nine Chinese …

, wage rates vary considerably less than productivity and wage profiles are steeper for high-skilled workers. The relative … productivity over wage ratio is found to be sector-specific. It is the highest for young workers in manufacturing while in services …This study aims at evaluating the actual profile of marginal productivity across the age groups within the workforce …

This article presents a new decomposition of unit labour costs into compensation per worker and labour productivity … countries and the US show that the evolution of labour productivity components counteracts the deterioration in countries' cost …

shared between firms and workers. This is done through analysing the sign of various OJT variables and different wage …