This paper estimates the effect that changes in the size of the youth population have on the wages of young workers … age groups earn lower wages. We test this hypothesis for a sample of young, male, fulltime employees in Western Germany … estimation, we show that an increase in the youth share by one percentage point is predicted to decrease a young worker's wages …

This paper estimates the effect that changes in the size of the youth population have on the wages of young workers … age groups earn lower wages. We test this hypothesis for a sample of young, male, full-time employees in Western Germany … estimation, we show that an increase in the youth share by one percentage point is predicted to decrease a young worker's wages …

-2008 financial crisis. We study the evolution of both employment and wages in a large sample of Italian workers followed for nine … also high-type (and therefore more expensive) workers, even though wages do react to the slack. All in all, our results …

We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics …. Although real wages increased seven-fold during the period, growth was uneven across ownership types, industries and regions …. Since the late 1990s, the wages of state-owned enterprises have increased rapidly and wage disparities between skill …

groups and between those of different age, taking account of the endogeneity of wages and employment. Compared to estimates …