formality or wages. To contribute to this critical policy issue, this paper presents a first global estimate of job quality …

by a high cost of housing. When I deflate nominal wages using a location-specific CPI, I find that the difference between …

by a high cost of housing. When I deflate nominal wages using a location-specific CPI, I find that the difference between …

is typically measured using nominal wages. I show that from 1980 to 2000, college graduates have increasingly … increase in their nominal wage. To measure the college premium in real terms, I deflate nominal wages using a new CPI that … documented increase in the return to college between 1980 and 2000 disappears when I use real wages. This finding does not appear …

and earnings for different groups of workers over time. Microeconometric models of job stability and wages are estimated … overall job stability but decreasing wages and rising wage dispersion over time, which is in line with wage moderation … duration and wages, like low skilled, formerly unemployed and temporary agency workers. Again, we find evidence of a rise in …