overcrowding. We provide evidence that Scottish workers generally spent their rent reduction entirely on food, rather than saving. …

industries high rent and overcrowding are more prevalent. Within cities, but not between cities, variations in infant mortality …

hourly wage and spousal education, showing that attractiveness and height matter in the labor market, whereas both male and …

requirements are violated. We analyze the effect of sanctions on the ensuing job quality, notably on wage rates and hours worked … includes a policy change in which the punishment severity was reduced. We find that the hourly wage and the number of hours are …

with heterogeneous firms, endogenous determination of informal wage and politically dictated enforcement strategies. Firms …

We estimate a model of the joint participation and mobility along with the individuals’ wage formation in France. Our …

hourly wage rates. The richness of the data set allows us to implement several strategies to control for unobserved … suicide thoughts and suicide attempts decrease the hourly wage rate and the probability that a young adult individual works …

This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement … to median wage ratio could be associated with a decline in the share of formal employment of between 1.2-5.6 percentage …

Taking advantage of a complex minimum wage structure in Honduras, this paper examines how changes in minimum wages over … the economy: medium and large-scale firms v. small firms in the private sector (where minimum wage legislation applies … effectively enforced only in medium and largescale firms, where a 1% increase in the minimum wage leads to an increase of 0.29% in …

counterparts. The gap is particularly large at the top of the wage distribution. At the same time, workers in both sectors have …