authors analyze how the supply of skills and legal origin of the country affect the wage setting process. The wage analysis … just for returns to education, but also for the wage setting process more generally. In particular, in civil-law countries …, returns to seniority are rewarded only after a certain age. Third, workers exercise some power in the wage setting process but …

"The authors provide new evidence on the impacts of trade reforms on wages and wage inequality in developing countries … wages and wage inequality. After setting up unusual historical data sets of trends in tariffs, trends in wages, and trends … in wage inequality, the evidence supports two well-known hypotheses: trade liberalization, other things being equal, (1 …

consumption distribution tend to earn a larger share of their nonagricultural incomes from wage labor activities. For the poorest …, low-productivity wage labor activities are important. The quantile wage regression analysis for rural Mexico shows a … rather heterogeneous impact pattern of individual characteristics across the wage distribution on monthly wages. The author …

Latvian labor market, compared with prime?age men, is less unfavorable than in many other countries. Yet the gender wage gap …