, wages and restructuring in transition in three former centrally planned economies (Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland). They … protect low skilled wages; whereas in late transition ones, firm level agreements increase medium and especially high skilled … wages. Some cross country differences emerge in the structure of the wage premium as a result of country specific features …

wages, employment, occupations and locations of blue-collar native workers. The natives in the sample are initially in … positively selected natives towards occupations with less routine tasks. While we find no negative impact on employment, there is … substantial evidence that immigration lowers the median annual wages of natives. The estimated negative effects are also much …

of employment in middle-skill production and clerical occupations - so-called job polarization. I study whether job … skills into occupations prevents credible identification of polarization’s effect on wages. I solve the selection …-bias problem by studying the changes in returns to occupation-specific skills instead of the changes in occupational wages using …

This paper studies the impact of NAFTA on informality and real wages in Mexico. Using a dynamic industry model with … most productive firms, and an increase in real wages due to the increased labour demand by these firms. Using data on … import tariffs is related to an increase in real wages, and that the elimination of the U.S. import tariff has contributed to …

labor share, employment and wages respond to privatization and other regulatory changes. We exploit cross-country panel data …-experiment in the OECD: the privatization of many network industries (e.g. telecommunications and utilities). We present a model … on several network industries and find that privatization can account for a significant proportion of the fall of labor …

This paper studies the dynamics of labour demand and the determinants of employment rates across the OECD. We find: (i …) labour demand adjusts less rapidly when employment protection is more strict and union density is higher; (ii) there is no … evidence that overall job turnover is influenced by employment protection; (iii) union density and coverage are negatively …