who are proficient in the local dialect earn lower wages than those who are not. We also find that workers with better … dialect skills are more likely to settle for lower wages in exchange for social insurance. We hypothesize that they are doing … work. Further tests show that the phenomenon of "exchanging wages for social insurance participation" is more pronounced …

wages, on average. Interestingly, and contrary to the literature, our results indicate a negative relationship between firm … size and wages. …

on wages. We observe high levels of demand for skilled labour that have intensified a trend already established before … for skilled labour has also fed into and changed the structure of wages, and therefore wage inequality. We follow the work … presence of increasingly routinized tasks and offshoring, on wages. We run quantile regressions which suggest that, when …