examine the structure of wages in Argentina and to explore how it is affected by tariff reforms. We find that i) trade …This paper provides new evidence on the impacts of trade reforms on wages. We first introduce a model of trade that … industrial wages before and after one episode of trade liberalization, our strategy exploits the recent historical record of …

This paper documents the changes in the income distribution in Argentina from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s. Over the …

This paper investigates the effect of changes in payroll taxes on wages and employment in Argentina. The analysis … tax rates across space and time provides a plausible source of identification of their effects on employment and wages … results indicate that changes in payroll tax rates are only partially shifted onto wages, and they point to the absence of any …

labor, wages were increasing disproportionately both for low- and highskilled labor whereas employment trends were favoring … institutions were holding up relative wages of low-skilled labor which accounts for the disproportionate increase of unemployment …

first six waves of the British Household Panel Survey. We show that much of the residual variation in wages can be explained … of our findings is that wages are determined principally by individual characteristics - as human capital theory …

two stages. In the first stage, individual wages are regressed on worker characteristics, job and firm attributes …

and other establishments from 1997 to 2001. While theory provides alternative explanations for higher or lower wages in … newly founded firms, we show empirically that start-ups tend to pay lower wages, ceteris paribus. On average, wages in newly …