This paper uses individual data on employment and wages to shed light on the UK's productivity puzzle. It finds that … workforce composition cannot explain the reduction in wages and hence productivity that we observe; instead, real wages have … lower capital-labour ratio. We cannot tell whether productivity is driving wages or vice versa, but understanding why wages …

they consider lower wages and higher wage dispersion major prerequisites for stronger employment growth. The theoretical … the downward pressure on wages and led to rising income inequality. Many German economists welcomed this effect, because …

This paper examines employment transitions in the South African labour market. Using the Post-Apartheid Labour Market … accounting for wage employment and self-employment as well as upper-tier and lower-tier informal sector segments. Transition … probabilities are estimated using dynamic discrete choice models, and the extent to which transitions affect changes in real wages …

In this paper, we analyse differences in the cyclical pattern of employment and wages of immigrants and natives for two …

wages. We estimate a negative connection between establishments' wage cyclicality and their employment cyclicality, thereby … cycle. While wages of the median establishment are moderately procyclical, 36 percent of establishments have countercyclical …