young adults’ wages in South Africa. The results show that, on average, any experience of physical or emotional abuse during … childhood is associated with a later 12% loss of young adults’ wages. In addition, the correlation between physical abuse and … economic consequence (14%) is more significant than the relationship between emotional abuse and wages (8%) of young adults …

successfully to raise worker wages, income inequality would almost certainly be higher than it is. …

This paper uses the task-content-of-occupations framework to analyze trends in employment and wages of female and male … occupations for most of the period of analysis. However, the analysis finds no consistent, significant changes in wages based on …

growth in regulations to protect workers from low wages and poor working conditions. Several institutional structures shape …

employment, wages, and hours of work. In order to assess whether the changes experienced by workers in the sectors analysed were … increase in real hourly wages in the post-law period in four of the five sectors examined. Our results also suggest that whilst … intensive margin in certain sectors. We also find that in three of the five sectors, increases in real hourly wages were …

In the past decade, wages in Germany have risen more slowly than economic performance. Year on year, average wages …. Although there are also sectors with low wages, in which wage increases were insufficient according to this benchmark--such as … the hospitality industry, construction, or agriculture--it was the economic sectors with relatively high wages that were …