vacancies. Job flexibility at low wages is more likely to be offered alongside a wage-contract that exposes workers to earnings … risk, while flexibility at higher wages and in more skilled occupations is more likely to be offered alongside a fixed … point increase in the proportion of flexible and non-salaried vacancies at low wages …

pressure on wages, especially of less skilled workers. This article focuses on trends in minimum wages, income taxes, and work … find evidence for eroding relative minimum wages in various EU countries, yet combined with catch-up growth in the new … Member States. We also find that governments counteracted eroding minimum wages through direct income support measures …

manufacturing. Earnings losses are larger for individuals with low initial wages, low initial tenure, and low attachment to the …

We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics …. Although real wages increased seven-fold during the period, growth was uneven across ownership types, industries and regions …. Since the late 1990s, the wages of state-owned enterprises have increased rapidly and wage disparities between skill …

formality or wages. To contribute to this critical policy issue, this paper presents a first global estimate of job quality …