I have worried about the talk, in recent times, that immigrants hurt the wages of native workers in the host nation. If … to experiment with a classic dataset on immigrants and native worker wages, which was assembled about 15 years ago. At …) that reduces the wages of native workers. Specifically, the indication was that the proportion of immigrant workers (p) is …

This paper uses individual data on employment and wages to shed light on the UK's productivity puzzle. It finds that … workforce composition cannot explain the reduction in wages and hence productivity that we observe; instead, real wages have … lower capital-labour ratio. We cannot tell whether productivity is driving wages or vice versa, but understanding why wages …

setting minimum wages at the contract level. Using an instrumental variable strategy and exploiting variations in contract …-level exposure to trade, we find for the 1995-2003 period that, on average, the surge in imports decreased contractual minimum wages … effect contrasts with a nonsignificant effect of trade on total wages, with the latter becoming positive and large only for …

This study looks at trends in Indian farm wages, analyses their linkage with food prices, and identifies factors which … wages. In last 20 years (1998-99 to 2017-18), wages of India's farm labourers increased at an average annual rate of 9.3 per … inflation and wage growth, evidence was found of a food-wage spiral where changes in food prices and farm wages were estimated …