We investigate the effects of works councils on employees' wages and job satisfaction in general and for subgroups with … move to a firm with a works council, report increases in job satisfaction, but do not receive particular wage increases … support for the hypothesis that the introduction of a works council itself increases wages or job satisfaction for the …

influence their wages by exerting effort, myopic utility maximization directly implies increasing and concave shaped wage …The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored theoretically and empirically. To do this, we apply a … utility function that rises with the absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. It is shown that when employees can …

We combine status quo and social comparison considerations and investigate whether relative wage increases in the sense … of differences between individual wage increases and wage increases of comparable employees are related to managers' job … between relative wage increases and job satisfaction is relevant for managers with lower absolute wage levels in particular …

important channel through which language skills affect wages of child migrants. Although the returns of adult migrants do not …

workers value these conditions, and assesses the impact of working conditions on estimates of the wage structure and … workers. Preferences vary by demographic groups and throughout the wage distribution. We find that accounting for differences … in preferences for working conditions often exacerbates wage differentials by race, age, and education, and intensifies …

States and Mexico. This paper evaluates the degree of wage convergence between Mexico and the United States between 1988 and … Mexico and the US. First, we find no evidence of long-run wage convergence among cohorts characterized by low migration …

Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants …. Using data from the 1980-2000 U.S. censuses and the 2005-2010 American Community Surveys, we show that these wage premiums …

higher wages as adults. The positive effect is concentrated in grades 1-3 and on programs that targeted schools with a higher …

the U.S. Using data from the 1984-1999 Current Population Survey, we examine trends in the wages of workers within freight … transportation, with a focus on wage differentials across industries and occupations. Our aim is to provide stylized facts. We find … that real wages in rail, truck, and water transport declined over most of the period and have rebounded since 1996. Within …