We explore whether the way in which tax credits are disbursed affects the gross wage of workers. We exploit an unusual …

). This earnings advantage of union workers is known as the union wage premium. The premium differs by country, industry …, worker, and the estimated wage premium varies by study methodology, among other factors. This chapter explains the premium …’s determinants and charts how they have changed over time, leading to a typically reduced wage effect in recent years relative to …

We use representative payroll data from Great Britain to document novel facts about nominal wage adjustments, focusing …. Unusually, these payroll-based data also report the wage rates of hourly-paid employees. A quarter of these workers typically … see no change in their wage rates from one year to the next in the same job, and very few experience wage cuts. We exploit …

-in-difference estimator. The findings suggest that joining a union is associated with modest wage gains, contrary to what the literature has …) associated with joining (leaving) a union with respect to non-wage benefits. The findings show joining (leaving) a union …

successful in industrial development, viz., China, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea and Thailand. The study shows that the wage …