to the experience of other countries at a similar stage of transition. We show that informal employees earn significantly …

The authors present a comparative analysis of employment determination in four transition economies as they moved from … transition. For the most part, firms appear to have been quick to adjust employment to wage levels, and there is little evidence … of labor hoarding. There were important cross-country variations in the determinants of employment during the reform …

This paper presents new estimations of wages for Normandy between 1600 and 1850. We used a vast array of primary and … secondary sources to assemble two new databases on wages and commodity prices to establish a new regional consumer price index … resulting labour shortage, led to a convergence of wages across unskilled occupations and a relative catch-up with urban skilled …

This paper explores the implications of the mismatch hypothesis in the context of the labor market using a survey on …

currently open in the literature. This debate is relevant as it matters for the understanding of the labor market dynamics, and … for devising labor policies that aim at dampening employment fluctuations. The theoretical literature suggests that job … firm size, wages and productivity are positively related. This paper constructs a unique monthly linked employer …

from various Statistics Canada surveys and focuses on the real (hourly or weekly) wages earned by full-time workers. It is … changed over the past three decades. Wages are expressed in 2010 dollars. Since the early 1980s, real wages of various groups … changes, growth in international trade, institutional factors (e.g., de-unionization, changes in minimum wages, and changes in …

importance of individual rather than group productivity in labor market compensation, a change broadly consistent with the … economic transformation of the Croatian labor market …