-defined black groups. He found that native-born blacks of West Indian parentage had earnings that were 8 to 11 percent higher than … the earnings of native-parentage blacks, and that native-born blacks of other foreign parentage had earnings that were 12 … earnings of native-born black American men of West Indian ancestry and the earnings of other native-born men, both black and …

Recent studies have documented the growth of earnings inequality in the United States during the 1980s. In contrast to … earnings inequality over the same period. Between 1978 and 1988, a reduction in the dispersion of earnings among workers in the … bottom half of the earnings distribution led to a narrowing of the overall dispersion of earnings in Germany. Earnings …

the wages, benefits, and working conditions of workers in low-skilled labor markets. Through intensive case studies in …

data from seven waves of the Labour Force Survey, this paper documents that the real wages, average monthly earnings, and …Minimum wages have been in place for South Africa's one million domestic service workers since November of 2002. Using … total earnings of all employed domestic workers have risen since the regulations came into effect, while hours of work per …

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 …