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

In nationally representative household data from the 2008 wave of the Rural to Urban Migration in China survey, nearly …. This paper investigates why the use of social network to find jobs is so prevalent among rural-urban migrants in China, and … whether migrants face a wage penalty as a result of adopting this job search method. We find evidence of positive selection …

hypothesis that in countries with weak enforcement institutions, high labor taxes on low-wage workers may lead to substantial …

individuals who earn less than twice the minimum wage. Our estimate for the elasticity of gross labor earnings with respect to the …-tax schedule, combined with a short-term rigidity of the hourly taxable wage (i.e. the gross wage minus payroll taxes), casting …

We study short- and long-term wage effects of two important elements of non-wage labour costs: firing costs and payroll …

men and women. We find that, first, gender pay gaps are typically bigger at the top of the wage distribution, a finding … of the wage distribution, a finding that is consistent with sticky floors. Third, the gender pay gap is typically higher … at the top than the bottom end of the wage distribution, suggesting that glass ceilings are more prevalent than sticky …