The paper investigates the relative importance of job mobility for wages in comparison with the human capital framework …

stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …

orientation, a process whereby uncovered firms profess to shadow the wages set under sectoral bargaining. Yet importantly, at a … indirect coverage, still less of the degree to which wages are aligned in practice. Using nationally representative data for … 2000-2010, this paper charts the extent of orientation in the uncovered sector, and tracks average wages across bargaining …

suggest that immigration exhibits negative effects on native employment and wages, and has no effects on total employment …. Imports affect employment negatively and exports have a positive effect on wages. The German results indicate that immigration … and trade is not harming employment and wages. Natives seem to be complements to migrants, at least to those from East …