boomers). In addition, trade and tax legislation that confers special status on firms operating in certain Caribbean countries …

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the relationship between trade liberalization and wages in India. Design … that trade reforms have been associated with a rise in the relative wages of medium‐skilled workers (defined as having … completed secondary schooling). The authors do not find any evidence for trade reforms to be associated with an increase or …

in skill premium but changes in relatives wages are related to changes in relative employment. 5. The differing … dispersion of wages is not a major contributor to differences in employment rates between Germany and the US. The jobs problem in … wages coupled with less regulations governing the labour market and the product market in the US has induced firms to employ …

employment in Indonesia. This study used the Indonesian Labor Force Survey (Sakernas) data from 1996 to 2003. Design … effects of minimum wage on hours worked of paid employment separately across individuals in different groups of gender (male … is slightly higher because of the structural transformation in Indonesia marked by a shift in employment from the …

education. Moreover, promotion is a suitable mechanism for improving worker’s wages. In particular, the wage gain is between 5 …

This paper examines the evolution of the cyclicality of real wages and employment in four Latin American economies …, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico, during the period 1980–2010. Wages were highly procyclical during the 1980s and early … 1990s, a period characterized by high inflation. As inflation declined wages became less procyclical, a feature that is …