increases in state, local, and company-specific minimum wages. The once fantastical demand for a $15 an hour wage floor has been …'s strikes are no longer just about McDonald's or Walmart but low-wage jobs generally, from child care, to adjunct teaching, to …, and under longstanding labor law, that means break time. But work changed and the law did not. Today's low-wage service …

This paper investigates how wage growth varies among Australian employees with different individual characteristics and … that after increasing between 2002 and 2007, wage growth had significantly slowed down post 2008, and particularly from … industry explain a large share of differences in wage growth between individuals, and these characteristics are more important …

We combine status quo and social comparison considerations and investigate whether relative wage increases in the sense … of differences between individual wage increases and wage increases of comparable employees are related to managers' job … between relative wage increases and job satisfaction is relevant for managers with lower absolute wage levels in particular. …

, we decompose the impacts on earnings into effects on wage rates and effects on hours. For most degrees, the earnings … gains come from increased wage rates, though hours play an important role in some degrees, such as medicine, especially for …

work-life benefits and various employment outcomes in the Canadian labour market. Whilst the theory of compensating wage … differentials hypothesizes an inevitable trade-off between higher wages and non-wage benefits, the efficiency wage theory suggests … otherwise. The empirical evidence broadly supports the efficiency wage theory, thus rejecting the compensating wage …

This paper contributes to the literature on overeducation by empirically investigating the wage penalty of job … associated with significantly lower wages but there is no wage penalty from overskilling. Furthermore, those who simultaneously … report overeducation and skills dissatisfaction experience a particularly high wage penalty. …