the analysis is on relative wages, defined as industry wage premiums relative to the economy-wide average wage. Using the … June waves of the Colombian National Household Survey, we first compute wage premiums for the period 1984-98, adjusting for … a series of worker characteristics, job and firm attributes, and informality. We find that industry wage premiums in …

We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories … and find that the latter over-estimate wage growth of earlier arrivals, presumably reflecting selective return migration …

anticipate considerably lower earnings in subsequent years, even under the assumption of continuous employment after leaving …

women's real wages. The experience of the 1970's suggests, however, that real wage growth cannot account for the increase In …

Two propositions figure prominently in explanations for Britain's comparatively low growth in employment: first, the … wage-setting mechanism is insufficiently responsive to the growth of unemployment and, second, there exists a well …-defined negative causal relationship from wages to employment with the features of a conventional labor demand function. Using …

In this paper we use indirect inference to estimate a joint model of earnings, employment, job changes, wage rates, and … outside wage offers, and the effects of seniority on job changes. We provide estimates of the dynamic response of wage rates … short run as well a substantial long long-term effect that operates through the wage rate. Shocks associated with job …

large wage differences between Miami and control because of large measurement error …

of STEM worker growth on the wages and employment of college and non-college educated native workers in 219 U.S. cities … workers in a city were associated with significant increases in wages paid to college educated natives. Wage increases for non …-college educated natives are smaller but still significant. We do not find significant effects on employment. We also find that STEM …

environment faced by the 1955 cohort. We find that a higher divorce probability and changes in wage structure are each able to …

increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased …, we find increases in wages, employment and firm-creation, especially in high-skilled manufacturing and knowledge …-intensive services, which help explain the positive wage effects of CBW on high skilled natives …