the macroeconomic level, we draw special attention to the important distinction between product and consumption wages … changes in the distribution of hourly wages between 1990 and 1997 and analyze the economic factors determining these changes …

setting minimum wages at the contract level. Using an instrumental variable strategy and exploiting variations in contract …-level exposure to trade, we find for the 1995-2003 period that, on average, the surge in imports decreased contractual minimum wages … effect contrasts with a nonsignificant effect of trade on total wages, with the latter becoming positive and large only for …

development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …

Industrial Classification 1998 (India), our estimation procedure obtains estimates of growth of real wages per worker that are …This study examines the inter-industry wage structure of the organised manufacturing sector in India for the period … 1973-74 to 2003-04 by estimating the growth of average real wages for production workers by industry. In order to estimate …

We investigate India's widening skill wage gap and narrowing gender wage differential during the two decades that …