We estimate how trade openness affects the relationship between wages, labour productivity and foreign wages using sector-level time series for several EU member states. In some countries wages became less responsive to foreign wages as trade costs declined. We show this counter-intuitive result...

Wie man es auch dreht und wendet: Deutschland hat - im internationalen Vergleich - gravierende ökonomische Probleme. Von der einstigen "Lokomotive" der europäischen Wirtschaften ist nicht mehr viel übrig geblieben. Der Export ist vordergründig das Aushängeschild der bundesdeutschen...

What makes workers consider it fair for wages to be indexed on job performance or efficiency? In this paper we attempt to answer this question using the 2005 wave of the World Values Survey data for 43 countries to investigate what socio-economic characteristics condition employees’ preference...