than median wages. We distinguish between "net decoupling" - the difference in growth of GDP per hour deflated by the GDP … hour deflated by the GDP deflator and median wages deflated by a measure of consumer price inflation. We would expect that …) the wedge between compensation (which includes employer-provided benefits like pensions and health insurance) and wages …

Outsourcing of labor services grew substantially during the 1980s and 1990s and was associated with lower wages, fewer … benefits mirror those on wages. Evidence suggests that the outsourcing penalty was not due to compensating differentials for …

one hand, the payment of social replacement incomes makes wages stick, preventing the gains from trade, causing mass …

paper presents a new approach to the analysis of the relationship between immigration and wages based on a panel vector … autoregression (VAR). The VAR analysis of a panel of US states shows that immigration does not have a significant effect on wages or … internal migration. By contrast, wages do affect immigration: a 10 percent increase in wages causes up to a 20 percent increase …

This paper analyzes the relationship between three body weight measures and employment status and wages, thereby … weight has a negative effect on wages for women but a positive effect for men, whereas in the public sector body weight has … no influence on wages for either men or women. …