investment in low-wage economies affects firms' home-country operations. To remain close to theory I focus on changes in firms … investment in relatively low-wage economies is associated with plant closures in relatively low-skill, labour …-intensive industries in the UK. The findings are of interest in the context of the relaxation of barriers to inward investment in low-wage …

In this paper we study the sources of wage growth. We identify the contribution to such growth of general, sector … human capital may be heterogeneous and where firms may offer different combinations of entry level wages and firm specific … human capital development. We allow for the the possibility that wages are match specific and that workers move jobs as a …

This paper applies a new approach to the estimation of the impact of policy, both the levels and the changes, on wage … differentials using a new high-quality data set on wage differentials by schooling level for 18 Latin American countries for the … expanding wage differentials, although this effect tends to fade away over time. This disequalizing effect is due to the strong …

expected wage differences. We find that neglecting the sector dimension tends to understate the effect of birth …

power in wage-setting within the firm; the impact of macro-social institutions; and the intersections of gender, race, class …

We analyze the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Contrary to … negative effect in Russia, and they provide some evidence of positive foreign effects on both wages and employment in all four … positive employment and wage bill consequences of foreign ownership result from a substantial scale-expansion effect that …

higher wages are associated with lower monitoring, irrespective of whether these high wages are caused by labor market …