.16 and 0.34, respectively), and controlling for employment size further reduces them (to 0.07 and 0.28). We also exploit the … unobserved firm characteristics affecting the average level and trend growth of wages. These controls have little effect on the …

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

By increasing the labor supply of welfare recipients, welfare reform may reduce wages and increase unemployment among … that welfare reform has significant spillover effects: welfare reform reduces employment of male high school dropouts, and … reduces wages of single mothers and male high school dropouts. …

What role has affirmative action played in the growth of minority and female employment in U.S. firms? This paper … analyzes this issue by comparing the employment of minorities and women at firms holding federal contracts and therefore ….S. employment landscape. The study uses a new panel data set of over 100,000 large private-sector firms across all industries and …

paid substantially more to agency help to avoid raising wages for their regular workers and to fill vacancies while they … facilitated the use of more "risky" workers by lowering their wages and benefits and the costs of firing them. The use of agency … temporaries in both high- and low-skilled occupations reduced the pressure on companies to raise wages for existing employees, and …

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 …

This paper studies the link between hourly wages and workers’ subjective assessments of how easy it would be to find … opportunities and respondents who think they are difficult to replace receive higher wages. The results appear to be consistent with …