, age and wages were positively related throughout working life, but more recently older workers' wages have been lower than … those of middle-aged workers. The relationship between education and wages was weak in 1988 but strengthened rapidly …

on wages. We observe high levels of demand for skilled labour that have intensified a trend already established before … for skilled labour has also fed into and changed the structure of wages, and therefore wage inequality. We follow the work … presence of increasingly routinized tasks and offshoring, on wages. We run quantile regressions which suggest that, when …

, wages are highest for formal workers and lowest for lower-tier informal jobs. The proportion of formal workers who maintain … job and, within informality, the chance of better wages. …