We examine whether income and unemployment risks are compensated by individual wages. Using a portfolio approach we … show that the marginal income risk effect on wages is always positive whereas the marginal unemployment risk effect …

wages, the relationship between wages and health is less clear-cut. What makes it most difficult to disentangle these … effects is that education, experience, health and wages are interrelated. To deal with these issues, we implement an Efficient … experience and health have positive impacts on wages. …

There is a debate about the labor market concentration being behind the anemic development of US wages over the past … find that concentration significantly hurts wages. A 10% increase in the number of firms leads to a 5% increase in wages. …

is declining while that of the highly educated is rising. This study estimates the impact of cohort size on wages using … effect of cohort size on individual wages rather than on the average wage of a specific age-education group which allows … controlling for potentially confounding effects at the individual level. The effect of cohort size on male wages is identified …

strong evidence that lower unemployment benefit has an adverse effect on wages. We use panel data to identify and estimate …. In eastern Germany there is no systematic difference between men and women but the negative impact on wages is confirmed. …

other European countries, and that the long-run elasticiy of wages to unemploument is close to the 'empirical law of …

-urban migration on city wages. Our results contribute to the evaluation of regional policies, as recent research has found that …

) and salary (and lower contribution bases attached to them). We can delve into the structure of wages in Catalonia (Spain … Pietra index to quantify the dispersion in the distribution of wages between men and women and for this purpose the model of …