employment protections. The 1940 conditional black-white wage gap coincides with the higher end of the range of estimates from …

and to declining real wages of less skilled males during the 1980s. We find that while the male wage declines are …

Economic growth in Europe and Asia and Latin America could have contri- buted in many different ways to lower wages and … price reductions twist the labor demand curve, dictating lower real wages for unskilled workers who reside in communities … with abundant unskilled labor but raising the wages for unskilled workers who are fortunate to live in communities …

In this paper, I examine the impacts of trade and investment liberalization on the wage structure of Mexico. Part one … reform paid their workers high wages, and raised the premium paid to workers in states along the U.S. border. These changes … differentials in Mexico have widened and appear to be explained largely by variation in regional access to foreign trade and …

without a college education. Though wages and participation have fallen in tandem for this population, we argue that the …

like minimum wages and trade unions prevent downward wage adjustments. Some economists have argued that this insight … explains the contrast between the United States, where real wages fell over the 1980s and aggregate employment expanded … vigorously, and Europe, where real wages were (roughly) constant and employment was stagnant. We test this hypothesis by …

wages or union contracts mandate that relatively high wages have to be paid to these workers. I report some empirical …

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 …

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