This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … effects explains why Chinese wages have caught up, especially since the mid-1990s. The price effect is only partly explained …

India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set - the India Human Development Survey, 2005 - to …

The tertiary-secondary (college-high school) wage premium has been increasing in India over the past decade, but the … in India. The findings of this paper are that the increase in the wage premium has come mostly from demand shifts in …

This paper examines changes in the wage structure in urban India during the past two decades (1983-2004) across the … entire wage distribution using the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition approach. Real wages increased throughout the wage … increasing effects of tertiary education suggests that wage inequality in urban India may increase further in the near future as …

. We solve (i) for the Markov perfect equilibria with no commitment, under the assumption that the union chooses wages each … entire (infinite) sequence of wages. We conclude that the speed of adjustment of employment, that is higher in the … employment and wages only in the no-commitment case, i.e., the higher the relevance of adjustment costs the higher the wage and …

core scope to set higher wages and to choose more generous welfare policies than their counterparts in the periphery …

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 …

minimum wages, employment protection, and collective bargaining widely applied. Results indicate that both countries became …