believed they were immune from the initial waves of downsizing and offshoring that affected the manufacturing sector, others at …

believed they were immune from the initial waves of downsizing and offshoring that affected the manufacturing sector, others at …

. Between 1978 and 1994, employment in the industry decreased by about 60 percent, while real wages (average compensation … operating and network characteristics contributed 4 to 5 percent to the overall increase in wages. …

apprehended. There is a shift of middle wage level jobs from regular to casual employment, leading to declining inequality among … casual workers and increased inequality among regulars. However, availability of mandays is decreasing, especially among …

one of the potential explanations for the fall in income inequality observed during the past three years. However, a … further reduction in income inequality remains an important challenge for the future. Greater access to a quality education …

change on wages. The narrative describes technological change as allowing for the increased codification of routine tasks … which enables capital to become more easily substituted for occupations with a high degree of engagement in these tasks … constant measures of occupational task requirements. That approach is unable to explore how wages respond to the time variant …

characteristics (size, employees’ average education, capital/labor ratio, and remoteness of selling markets) and average wages. We … and quantitatively important positive joint effects on wages. The national-market orientation effects (with respect to … local-market orientation) on labor composition and wages are at least as important as the international-market effects (with …

Wage inequality often creates much broader socio-economic inequality and may even accentuate them. For attaining … equitable development convergence in wages and earnings is therefore desirable. This paper explores trends and patterns in wage …

entry barrier. Most of the gender differences in wages are due to discrimination and only a small part is attributable to …