thereby may have contributed to the stagnant wage growth and low unemployment observed in the 1990s. …

week and employment have fallen. Each of these outcomes can be linked econometrically to the arrival of the minimum wage …

Studies of public-private and foreign-domestic wage differentials face difficulties distinguishing ownership effects … dimensions. The large unconditional wage gaps (0.24 for public-private and 0.40 for foreign-domestic) in the data are little ….16 and 0.34, respectively), and controlling for employment size further reduces them (to 0.07 and 0.28). We also exploit the …

We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to … Hungary and Russia are small (3-5%) negative wage effects found. Privatization to foreign investors has positive estimated … impacts on both employment and wages in all four countries. The negligible consequences of domestic privatization for workers …

that welfare reform has significant spillover effects: welfare reform reduces employment of male high school dropouts, and …

employment services sector, which has been a particularly important area of domestic outsourcing. In addition, we examine … domestic outsourcing and its implications for employment patterns and to inconsistencies across data sets in the information …