This paper examines the impact of minimum wage policies on employment, income, and working time of Chinese workers …. Using data from China Health and Nutrition Survey, we focus on identifying the effects of minimum wage adjustments using a … for limited groups. Increase of minimum wage has positive effect on wage income only for low-income workers and has …

Ill-health is commonly believed to be detrimental for labor market outcomes. Yet, causal evidence mostly comes from … analyses of severe shocks, whereas minor variations in health are not only more common but also a better target for prevention … prior to the date of a survey interview. Weather conditions are capable of affecting peoples' health. While bad weather …

employment, rising dual-earnership and part-time employment underline its relevance. We discuss the measurement of wage … inequality, data sources, and stylized facts of wage dispersion for rich countries. The literature explaining the dispersion of … wage rates and the role of institutions is evaluated, from the early 1980s to the recent literature on job polarization and …

a model is developed in which the labour market is described as a duopsony and the relation between wage and non … compensating differentials. In particular, while the wage dynamic related to workers shifting from a temporary contract to another … wage and commuting time persists, irrespective of the type of contract. -- atypical contracts ; oligopsony ; compensating …

, female labor. Wage growth over the next 20 years will continue to favor college educated workers and in particular college …