as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data … to median wage ratio could be associated with a decline in the share of formal employment of between 1.2-5.6 percentage …This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement …

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 … association diminishes for the employment models for males and females. For the wage models, controlling for unobserved …

the present paper the wage and employment consequences of UISAs are investigated in a model of collective wage … pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, intensify job search, and raise employment. In … determination. In the basic set-up, UISAs induce a trade union to lower wages. This effect can also arise if (1) balanced …

self-selection, we find substantial long-run wage premiums associated with migration for both males and females who move … for job-related reasons. There is, however, no evidence that moving across regions increases the probability of employment … for males and females; in fact, some female movers experience a long-run employment penalty. …

correlations between risk aversion and labour market outcomes (full-time employment, temporary agency work, fixed-term contracts …, employer change, quits, training, wages, and job satisfaction). …

transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude … consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage cuts from privatization to either foreign or domestic owners. The …

likely to be self-employed than employed as a wage earner. Furthermore, these recent EU8 immigrants earn less conditional on …

We study the effect of obesity on wages and employment, using data from the British NCDS. The results show a …

Differences in wages, employment, and capital between worker-owned and capitalist enterprises are computed from a …. Co-op wages are about 14 percent lower on average and they are more volatile (and employment less volatile) than those in …-managed firms. These differences are related to orthodox models of the capitalist firm and worker co-op. The estimates of the wage …

Using nationally representative data in China, we find substantial positive partial correlations of both parents …' education with one's wage. In addition, returns to father's education are higher in more monopsonistic and less meritocratic …