The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study … is set in an economy with close to complete union coverage where real wages have grown continuously in all parts of the … estimated elasticity of wages. Wage adjustments are larger for employees with high unemployment risk and for new hires entering …

setting minimum wages at the contract level. Using an instrumental variable strategy and exploiting variations in contract …-level exposure to trade, we find for the 1995-2003 period that, on average, the surge in imports decreased contractual minimum wages … effect contrasts with a nonsignificant effect of trade on total wages, with the latter becoming positive and large only for …

policies and higher wages than the periphery without inducing a relocation of firms. The scope to have higher wage is …

Using detailed monthly panel data from rural India, this paper analyzes sectoral wage gaps for men and women. I … worker human capital across the farm and non-farm sectors and much higher wages in the latter. Second, while these wage gaps … in wages across sectors. Women work fewer hours and are less likely to work outside of their own village in the non …