urban areas may generate productivity advantages that result in higher wages. City size has an important impact on the … relative bargaining power of workers and firms in the labour market. When analysing the relationship of local wages and the …

that optimality calls for the urban and the rural governments to subsidize the two wages …

expected to exert a downward pressure on wages. We revisit this issue by applying meta-analytic techniques to a sample of … immigration on wages of native groups with similar skills appears rather robust. …

increase in labour supply may be expected to exert a downward pressure on wages. We revisit this issue by applying meta …