We estimate foreign ownership wage premiums for every 3-digit manufacturing industry in China and discover a wide range … firms pay higher wages to reduce the risk of worker turnover and the accompanying technology leakage to domestic rivals … the "fair wage" hypothesis that foreign firms pay higher wages because they are more profitable than domestic firms and …

increases in employment and output rather than only in wages; and (2) even though the domestic saving rate is high, foreign …

increases in employment and output rather than only in wages; and (2) even though the domestic saving rate is high, foreign … wages are sustained by a large reserve army of rural labor which drives internal migration, and (2) domestic capital is …

Using the data covering the time period from 1996 till 2011, I estimate a spatial autoregressive model of wages' growth … rates across Russian cities. I find that wages in Russian cities exhibit convergence. I also test whether city population … wages, but diverge in size. …

Trade is spatial in nature. However, when specifying trade regressions, spatial issues are typically not accounted for … in a satisfactory way. We specify a trade model which relates to the effects that the introduction of the euro had on …, the effects of currency unions on trade as described in the previous literature has been severely overstated. …