An analysis of the variance of wages within and between industries, finding that wage differences are virtually …

A test of whether the enactment of a dedicated tax leads to higher payroll and wages for public employees, by means of …

How do the complex institutions involved in wage setting affect wage changes? The International Wage Flexibility … Project provides new microeconomic evidence on how wages change for continuing workers. We analyze individuals’ earnings in 31 … different data sets from sixteen countries, from which we obtain a total of 360 wage change distributions. We find a remarkable …

A considerable body of economics research has described and investigated the educational wage premium-the degree to … decades and accounts for a significant fraction of the increase in overall wage inequality. These two facts have led many to … wage differences at each education level. She finds that some wage differences are attributable to differences in non …

ABSTRACT: While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of … the link between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we … follow over time plants that start to export. We show that the exporter wage premium does already exist in the years before …

Female age at first marriage and male wage inequality have increased steadily since the late 1960s in the United States … distribution of wage offers, because the expected value of continued job search increases. …

system. Real wages and wage inflation emerge as especially persistent following an import price shock, while price inflation …This paper investigates the persistence of aggregate wages and prices in Portugal assuming a model of a unionized … wages is attributable mainly to unemployment shocks (about 80 percent), whereas variation in the forecast errors of prices …