relationship between firm age and employee compensation as well as firm age and firm productivity suggest that there may be at …

wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the lowest wage in the market exceeds the minimum wage. The model has …

productivity) is low. Secondly, our estimates of the effects of training on wages are about half the size of the effects on …There is a vast empirical literature on the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of … productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity …

1990, we find that at the urban level richer diversity is systematically associated with higher average nominal wages for … the positive correlation between wages and diversity survives a battery of robustness checks, it seems to be larger once … wages. Comparing real and nominal wages across cities, we interpret these results as evidence that diversity enhances …

insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression … balance between two offsetting forces: UI causes agents to seek higher-wage jobs, but also reduces wages by lengthening … both in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by …

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual-level data combined with industry … real wages. Hence, offshoring has contributed to a widening of the wage gap between skilled and less skilled workers. This …