Workers participating in firm-sponsored training receive higher wages as a result. But given that firms pay the …

wages reflect this, with lower pay for greater uncertainty. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of education … as an indicator of the unobserved heterogeneity that employers face. We find solid evidence that starting wages are lower …

wages of less skilled natives and a small positive effecton the wages of high skilledworkers as new immigrants are less …

density and productivity and wages has long been established in the economic literature, less is known about the effects of … supply of university graduates on wages, i.e. the social return to education. …

In this study, we investigate the anatomy of older workers' wages. The central question is whether the wage cushion - i ….e., the difference between actual wages and collectively agreed-upon (maximum) contractual wages - contributes to the fact … that wages continue increasing at older ages. We follow the wages of individual workers in twenty-two sectors of industry …

Netherlands shows that for males the use of tobacco has a negative wage effect of about 10% while the use of alcohol has a … positive wage effect of about the same size. The wages of females are not affected by smoking and drinking. …