The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study … is set in an economy with close to complete union coverage where real wages have grown continuously in all parts of the … estimated elasticity of wages. Wage adjustments are larger for employees with high unemployment risk and for new hires entering …

setting minimum wages at the contract level. Using an instrumental variable strategy and exploiting variations in contract …-level exposure to trade, we find for the 1995-2003 period that, on average, the surge in imports decreased contractual minimum wages … effect contrasts with a nonsignificant effect of trade on total wages, with the latter becoming positive and large only for …

Using a nationally representative large-scale survey of individual ICT skills in India (Multiple Indicators Survey … instrumental variables (IV) strategy. The IV approach exploits the dramatic expansion of cell towers in India as a source of supply …

Using detailed monthly panel data from rural India, this paper analyzes sectoral wage gaps for men and women. I … worker human capital across the farm and non-farm sectors and much higher wages in the latter. Second, while these wage gaps … in wages across sectors. Women work fewer hours and are less likely to work outside of their own village in the non …

the distribution of hourly wages and household income. Wage inequality, measured by the ratio of wages in the 90th and 10 …. For young workers, aged under 25, the effects were far greater, with a 24 percent reduction in the ratio of wages in the …

. We solve (i) for the Markov perfect equilibria with no commitment, under the assumption that the union chooses wages each … entire (infinite) sequence of wages. We conclude that the speed of adjustment of employment, that is higher in the … employment and wages only in the no-commitment case, i.e., the higher the relevance of adjustment costs the higher the wage and …

The recent enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India has been widely hailed a policy that …) conflicting observations and empirical results on the impact of an EGS on agricultural wages, employment and output, and …