unions to affect nonunion wages both through the typically discussed channel of nonunion firms emulating union wages in order … indicate an important role played by union wage spillovers in lowering wages over the 1980-2010 period. We find de …

This paper studies the impact of import competition from China on informality and wages in the Peruvian manufacturing … surge in imports from China on the likelihood of being hired in the informal sector and on wages in both the formal and … informal sectors. The results suggest that greater import competition increased the chances of working in the informal sector …

1990, we find that at the urban level richer diversity is systematically associated with higher average nominal wages for … the positive correlation between wages and diversity survives a battery of robustness checks, it seems to be larger once … wages. Comparing real and nominal wages across cities, we interpret these results as evidence that diversity enhances …