Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new …

We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using a large longitudinal data set for … Portugal. Female managers can protect and mentor female employees by paying them higher wages than male-led firms would do. We … find that females can enjoy higher wages in female-led firms, the opposite being true for males. In both cases is a higher …

labor costs. Our analysis indicates that when wages and prices are flexible, product demand policies have no significant …

has ex-post monopsonistic power that drives trained workers’ wages below the socially-optimal level. The emergence of …

wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the lowest wage in the market exceeds the minimum wage. The model has …

How does trade liberalization affect wages? This is the first paper to consider in theory and data how the impact of … final and intermediate input tariff cuts on workers’ wages varies with the global engagement of their firm. Our model … predicts that a fall in output tariffs lowers wages at import-competing firms, but boosts wages at exporting firms. Similarly …

In a corporatist country like the Netherlands, wages should not be distinguished by union membership status, but by …

northwestern parts. In the advanced parts of India and China, grain wages were comparable to those in northwestern Europe, but … silver wages, which conferred purchasing power over tradable goods and services, were substantially lower. The high silver … wages of northwestern Europe were not simply a monetary phenomenon, but reflected high productivity in the tradable sector …

This Paper presents strong evidence for the concavity of wages in job and worker characteristics by adding second order …. The impact of search frictions on wages is large. Our results relate to the literature on industry wage differentials, on …