knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …

We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics …. Although real wages increased seven-fold during the period, growth was uneven across ownership types, industries and regions …. Since the late 1990s, the wages of state-owned enterprises have increased rapidly and wage disparities between skill …