This paper empirically examines the effect on wages in Mexico of Mexican emigration to the United States, using data … and positive effect on Mexican wages. There is also evidence for increasing wage inequality in Mexico due to emigration …

), particularly for the low-income and older individuals. Using simulations of tax and social benefits and public pensions, the paper …

significant relationship between real wages and labor productivity, as well as evidence of wage pass-through to inflation. Terms … of trade shocks do not feed through to real wages. Country-specific wage developments, beyond differences in labor …

This paper analyzes the role of the tax and benefit system in spurring the impressive increase in Canadian female labor … reforms in the Canadian tax and benefit system in the mid-1990s account for at least one-third of the observed increase in …

methodology is applied to Polish micro data. The estimates confirm that wages are less elastic in a high … wages, and thus, on the labor market and the real economy, were limited until 1998, but have been quite significant …

This paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between reservation wages of unemployed workers and … perspective on how reservation wages change over time and how they correlate with accepted wage offers for workers who move from … unemployment to employment. The findings shed light on the disincentive effects of the German tax and transfer system for the …

Using household level data for France from 1990 to 2000, we estimate a relationship between wages and unemployment … large between 1996 and 2000 and undoubtedly contributed strongly to the exceptional employment performance during that …