productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ?Solovian zone? where wages increase with … productivity, to a ?Marxian? zone where the paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …

We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms …' intensive margins. Short-run changes in work intensity and the longer-term goal of restoring full potential productivity …

, wage and productivity in the Belgian private sector. More precisely, we examine how changes in the proportions of young (16 …-29 years), middle-aged (30-49 years) and older (more than 49 years) workers affect the productivity of firms and test for the … presence of productivity-wage gaps. Results (robust to various potential econometric issues, including unobserved firm …

headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and wages. We find that migraine headache is associated with a decrease in … wages. However, there is little evidence that migraine headache leads to reductions in labor force participation or hours … worked. We conclude that estimates of the cost of migraine headache to society should include its impact on wages. …

effects for firms and detailed worker groups, we find 12-28 percent effects on average wages. The wage effect mostly reverses … strong cross-firm association of FDI wage premia with similar differentials in productivity. …

hypotheses. First, that most of the recent increase in the dispersion of wages and productivity has occurred across … establishments and these changes are linked. Second, that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across establishments is … fraction of the rising dispersion in wages and (to a lesser extent) productivity is accounted for by changes in the …

coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men …

forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages … estimate the impact of training – controlling for its financing method – on wages levels and wages growth. We find that … employer-financed training increases wages both in the current and future firms, with some evidence that the impact in future …