In this paper, we use a linked employer-employee database from Brazil to evaluate the wage effects of trade reform … increase in average wages in exporting firms relative to domestic firms, consistent with earlier studies. However, using … the differential impact of trade openness on the wages of workers at exporting firms relative to otherwise identical …

an increasing share of available income, while low-skilled workers have seen an absolute decline in real wages. How and … escalation of high-skill wages. This collection brings together innovative new ideas and data sources in order to provide more … on U.S. wages. This timely volume offers a thorough appraisal of the wage distribution predicament, examining the …

implications of exchange rates, reporting that industry wages are significantly more responsive than industry employment. We offer … the main mechanism for exchange rate effects on wages occurs through job turnover and the strong consequences this has for … the wages of workers undergoing such job transitions. By contrast, workers who remain with the same employer experience …

paid at least the wages and benefits that are "prevailing" for similar work in or near the locality in which the project is … located, have been the focus of an extensive policy debate. We find that the relative wages of construction workers decline …

of monopsony. We use an exogenous change in wages at Veterans Affairs hospitals as a natural experiment to investigate … responded to the VA wage change by changing their own wages …

-section comparisons of wages and immigration in the 1980 and 1990 Censuses yield unstable results casting doubt on the validity of these …

Economic growth in Europe and Asia and Latin America could have contri- buted in many different ways to lower wages and … price reductions twist the labor demand curve, dictating lower real wages for unskilled workers who reside in communities … with abundant unskilled labor but raising the wages for unskilled workers who are fortunate to live in communities …

This paper uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine the effect of smoking on wages and … observed and unobserved individual characteristics that may be correlated with both smoking and wages. Changes in wages … heterogeneity problem. Estimates from alternative specifications all indicate that smoking reduces wages by roughly 4-8%. No robust …

and to declining real wages of less skilled males during the 1980s. We find that while the male wage declines are …