"Guest workers" earn higher wages overseas on temporary low-skill employment visas. This wage effect can quantify …

quantify the effects of English-speaking ability on wages. We find that being fluent in English (compared to not speaking any … English) increases hourly wages of men by 34%, which is as much as the return to completing secondary school and half as much … wages 13%. There is considerable heterogeneity in returns to English. More experienced and more educated workers receive …

effects of FDI, but finds positive demand side effect of FDI of raising wage inequality and average wages. The results remain … countries. Labour market literature has focused on the demand side of FDI; that is, increasing wage inequality by demanding more … skilled workers or just increasing the overall average wages. On the supply side, FDI can enrich the skilled labour force of …