This paper estimates the effect that changes in the size of the youth population have on the wages of young workers … age groups earn lower wages. We test this hypothesis for a sample of young, male, fulltime employees in Western Germany … estimation, we show that an increase in the youth share by one percentage point is predicted to decrease a young worker's wages …

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

have substantial effects on wages and income inequality. Urban costs play an important role for locational and economic … with endogenous markups on wages and selection. With increasing commuting technology only more productive and less firms … survive. Firms have higher costs because they have to pay higher wages to compensate workers for the higher urban costs …

positive wage effect of about the same size. The wages of females are not affected by smoking and drinking. …

forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages … estimate the impact of training - controlling for its financing method - on wages levels and wages growth. We find that … employer-financed training increases wages both in the current and future firms, with some evidence that the impact in future …

We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms …

Using the data covering the time period from 1996 till 2011, I estimate a spatial autoregressive model of wages' growth … rates across Russian cities. I find that wages in Russian cities exhibit convergence. I also test whether city population … wages, but diverge in size. …

This paper contributes to the literature on overeducation by empirically investigating its effects on wages among Ph … individual wages. It leads to a wage penalty of about between 23% and 25%, more than twice bigger than average, a sizeable gap …

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. …