additional domestic infrastructure in China as production hubs and demand centers are spatially separated. If domestic transport … long run marginal costs of supply for Europe and the US but significant effects for China. …

as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data … to median wage ratio could be associated with a decline in the share of formal employment of between 1.2-5.6 percentage …This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement …

This paper examines the effects of alcohol consumption on employment and wages for males and females in Russia. Both … impact on employment and wages. Further, there is some evidence in favor of an inverse U-shaped relationship between alcohol … association diminishes for the employment models for males and females. For the wage models, controlling for unobserved …

the present paper the wage and employment consequences of UISAs are investigated in a model of collective wage … pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, intensify job search, and raise employment. In … determination. In the basic set-up, UISAs induce a trade union to lower wages. This effect can also arise if (1) balanced …

self-selection, we find substantial long-run wage premiums associated with migration for both males and females who move … for job-related reasons. There is, however, no evidence that moving across regions increases the probability of employment … for males and females; in fact, some female movers experience a long-run employment penalty. …

correlations between risk aversion and labour market outcomes (full-time employment, temporary agency work, fixed-term contracts …, employer change, quits, training, wages, and job satisfaction). …

transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude … consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage cuts from privatization to either foreign or domestic owners. The …

likely to be self-employed than employed as a wage earner. Furthermore, these recent EU8 immigrants earn less conditional on …