wages for over five million workers in sixteen Latin American economies, the authors estimate national and industry … wages and the demand for skills"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site …

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 …

1990-91. This paper exploits these trade reforms to investigate the relationship between protection and wages. The focus of … the analysis is on relative wages, defined as industry wage premiums relative to the economy-wide average wage. Using the … between protection and wages; workers in protected sectors earn less than workers with similar observable characteristics in …

In this paper, we analyze the relationship between how long an employer has been in business (firm age) and wages … have been in business longer pay higher wages (as previous studies have found), but pay if anything lower wages after … controlling for worker characteristics. There is some evidence that the relationship is not monotonic, with wages falling and then …

. They also earn relatively low wages in their first few months of work: typically within $1 of the minimum wage. Despite …

the cross section. In our model, investors' income has two sources, wages and dividends, that grow stochastically over … time. As a consequence, the fraction of total income produced by wages changes over time de-pending on economic conditions …

and the other is about the effect of the presence of foreign-owned firms on Indonesian wages. We ask first whether foreign … in higher wages in locally-owned plants and overall. Higher foreign presence leads to higher wages in locally …-owned plants. Since the foreign plants also pay higher wages than locally-owned ones, the two factors together mean that higher …

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 …

-cancer control group in employment, hours worked, wages, and earnings. Overall, breast cancer has a negative impact on the decision …

This study transforms the October Inquiry' Survey of wages conducted by the International Labour Organization into a … while rising markedly in countries moving from communism to free markets and in lower middle income countries. 2. Wages in …