This paper estimates the effect that changes in the size of the youth population have on the wages of young workers … age groups earn lower wages. We test this hypothesis for a sample of young, male, fulltime employees in Western Germany … estimation, we show that an increase in the youth share by one percentage point is predicted to decrease a young worker's wages …

have substantial effects on wages and income inequality. Urban costs play an important role for locational and economic … with endogenous markups on wages and selection. With increasing commuting technology only more productive and less firms … survive. Firms have higher costs because they have to pay higher wages to compensate workers for the higher urban costs …

positive wage effect of about the same size. The wages of females are not affected by smoking and drinking. …

forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages … estimate the impact of training - controlling for its financing method - on wages levels and wages growth. We find that … employer-financed training increases wages both in the current and future firms, with some evidence that the impact in future …

We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms …

This paper contributes to the literature on overeducation by empirically investigating its effects on wages among Ph … individual wages. It leads to a wage penalty of about between 23% and 25%, more than twice bigger than average, a sizeable gap …