Motivated by recent debates on the possible role of wages as an income policy tool, in this study we examine the … dynamic inter-relationship between wages in Bulgaria, mainly in the context of its EU accession. Relative to the WDN studies … determinant of the other two wages. We demonstrate that minimum wage increases do not cause changes in average wages in either the …

inappropriate minimum wage schedules. Both measures made East German production possibilities and employment decline. …

wage bin throughout the monthly wage distribution. We find that, after one month, wages increased by 17 to 37 percent for …

wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little impact on … the employment rate of men, but led to a sizable drop in the male wage. We show that the near-zero correlation between … immigration and female wages arises partly because the native women who left the labor force had relatively low wages. Adjusting …