Quality of life differences across areas can be measured by differences in real wages where real wages are computed as … nominal wages adjusted for the cost of living. Computing cost of living differences involves several important issues …

on wages which can be seen as a lower bound for the effects on productivity. Based on panel data from the Swiss Labour … together, there are significant effects of work-related training on wages of roughly 2% for each training event. There is some …

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

following arrival, wages of highly skilled immigrants grow at 8% a year. Rising prices of skills, occupational transitions …, accumulated experience in Israel and economy-wide rise in wages account for 3.4, 1.1, 1.5 and 1.4 percent each. In the long run …, the average wages of immigrants approach but do not converge to the wages of comparable natives. The main reason for that …

the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ?Solovian zone? where wages increase with … increases, the price elasticity of demand falls, and markups increase to infinity as consumption reaches the unit elasticity … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set …

. Its main findings are that point estimates of wages after graduation are close to actual wages, whereas the expectations … of the deviation of individual expectations from actual wages can not be explained, we find that rates of return to …