On 29 April 2008 the EESC Labour Market Observatory (LMO) organised a hearing on "Women and the labour market". Guest … speakers and LMO members together analysed the large number of aspects that hinder women's full participation in the labour …

average human capital stock in a region on individual wages, considering regional human capital as a local public good. Indeed … statistically significant coefficient in an augmented Mincer specification. However, the impact on individual wages completely …

effects of tenure and especially of experience on wages decreased over time. We adopt the Machado-Mata (2005) counterfactual … dispersion of wages. …

This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing … importance of foreign wages versus domestic productivity developments in an open environment. We find that trade is not an … important driver of wages, since the wage response to trade is small. Moreover, in line with the Stolper-Samuelson reasoning …

importance of wage bargaining above the firm level, the automatic system of index-linking wages to past inflation, the limited …

degree of decentralization within highly centralized countries allows firms to adjust wages downwards, when business …

. We relate wages and their various components with macroeconomic and institutional trends and find that technology and … globalisation are associated with wage increases; migration is associated with declines in wages; whereas the effect of labour …