, civil service wages are an important determinant of corruption. Under shirking models, the level of wages is of secondary … and wages across developing countries. Tests as to the validity of the two different efficiency wage models are …

-looking monetary policy decisions. The bias is higher for countries whose monetary policy was more independent of Germany …

uses nonparametric estimation to capture possible nonlinearities in the wage curve and relaxes the assumption of a stable … methodology is applied to Polish micro data. The estimates confirm that wages are less elastic in a high … wages, and thus, on the labor market and the real economy, were limited until 1998, but have been quite significant …

In flow models of the labor market, wages are determined by negotiations between workers and employers on the surplus …

The growth rate of real hourly wages in France has fallen below the trend growth rate of total factor productivity. The …. Microeconometric estimations provide evidence of an outward shift in the relationship between wages and unemployment that is …

This paper undertakes a cross-country analysis of productivity growth at both the aggregate and sectoral level. It … finds that Asia''s remarkable output growth over the past 40 years reflected both high investment, and rapid productivity … encouraged resource shifts from low- to high-productivity sectors. Looking ahead, sustaining rapid growth requires meeting a …

that these appreciations reflect underlying productivity gains in the tradable sector. Using panel data over the period … 1993-98, the results show clear evidence of productivity-driven exchange rate movements in the central and eastern European … expect to experience further productivity-driven real exchange rate appreciations. Evidence from a large cross-section of non …