This paper employs a novel dataset on government wages to investigate the relationship between government remuneration … government wages as used in previous research. When the relationship between government wages and corruption is modeled to vary … with the level of income, we find that the impact of government wages on corruption is strong at relatively low …

compensating differential. We show that immoral work is associated with higher wages, both using correlational evidence from …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …

normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes are driven equally by hours and wages which is consistent with …

expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime …