We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms …

This paper examines the effects of alcohol consumption on employment and wages for males and females in Russia. Both … impact on employment and wages. Further, there is some evidence in favor of an inverse U-shaped relationship between alcohol …

wages to reflect this. Formal analysis supports the intuition. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of … education as an indicator of the heterogeneity that employers face. We find solid evidence that starting wages are lower if the … variance of exam grades is higher and that starting wages are lower if the skew is higher: employers shift quality risk to new …

dynamic panel-data wage equation and provide measures of the speed of adjustment in Belgium, Denmark and Finland. Further, we …

to young workers. Findings further indicate that average hourly wages within firms increase significantly and …

monopsony or upward sloping labour supply curves for average firm wages. Panel estimates provide strong evidence of a much …This paper uses a panel of about 6000 French establishments to test some implications of the modern theory of dynamic … compensating differentials with lagged wages, and for profitability (rent sharing). Employment expansion also has a positive effect …

. Noting this gap, this paper uses two-period (2003 and 2007) firm level panel data from South Africa to examine the impact of …

-employee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data methods, we quantify a firm-specific productivity term for each firm, and we …