While foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be … training is more productive and specific in foreign firms, foreign firm workers will have a steeper wage profile and thus … acquire a premium over time. Using a rich employer-employee matched data set we verify that the foreign wage premium is only …

In this paper I investigate the relationships between wage adjustment, competitiveness, macroeconomic policy and … assuming that the traded goods sector is competitive while the non-traded goods sector is oligopolistic, I show that real wages … in the traded goods sector are negatively related with competitiveness. Wage setting is what determines competitiveness …

. The new jobs created by the MNCs were found in activities with relatively high productivity and wages. This suggests that …

power of trade unions and contributed to wage moderation. …

In this paper we document a strong positive correlation of immigration flows with changes in average wages and average … compatible with a causal interpretation from immigration to wages and rents of natives. Separating the effects of immigrants on … natives of different schooling levels we find positive effects on the wages and rents of highly educated and small effects on …

positive wage effect of about the same size. Smoking and drinking do not affect the wages of females. …This Paper studies the wage effects of the use of alcohol and tobacco. The analysis based on a recent survey in the … Netherlands shows that for males the use of tobacco has a negative wage effect of about 10% while the use of alcohol has a …

relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we expect higher wage growth for full-time educated auditors than for dual … make it easier for them to switch employers than for the part-time educated auditors. The predictions on tenure and wages …

In a corporatist country, of which the Netherlands is an example, wages should not be distinguished by union membership …

in Ricardo a theory of prices independent of demand—and founded instead on a real wage determined separately from, though … not necessarily independently of, prices and the non-wage distributive variables—is considered with its implication of the … wage entering the determination of the latter as an 'intermediate datum' of the theory. This then makes it possible to …

It is standard in the literature on training to use wages as a sufficient statistic for productivity. This paper … an increase in hourly wages of about 0.3%. We also show evidence using individual level datasets that is suggestive of …