time of the March interview. The estimates suggest that the wages of last year's job affect current employment and earnings …, but the effects of wages are more modest than might be expected. The industry and occupation of last year's job make a …-wage jobs or jobs in industries such as hospitals or educational services. wages of last year's job affect current employment …

unobserved firm characteristics affecting the average level and trend growth of wages. These controls have little effect on the …

Using panel data on U.S. MSAs, this paper estimates how a typical MSA's wages of different demographic groups, and … prices and wages. MSA unemployment has strong effects on MSA wages and prices, but the distribution of unemployment among … different groups has weak effects on wages and prices. Using these estimates, simulations show that targeting high …

We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to … job losses from privatization, and they never imply large negative effects on wages; only for domestic privatization in … impacts on both employment and wages in all four countries. The negligible consequences of domestic privatization for workers …

This paper estimates the effects of privatization on worker separations and wages using retrospective data from a … used to control for unobservables in worker and firm selection. The results imply that privatization reduces wages by 5 … percent and cuts the layoff probability in half. Outside investor ownership reduces separations but leaves wages unaffected …