With the advent of the era of fast globalization, child labor drew equal attention from perpetrators as well as the protectors. In case of Carpet Industry in Pakistan, once highlighted by the international media, global actors impacted positively to eliminate child labor from the industry....

One of the most puzzling aspects of executive compensation is the pay gap that exists between American and foreign Chief Executive Officers (CEOs). Commentators and the financial press have been quick to argue that such differences are the result of high agency costs, or "board capture," a...

Globalization should be beneficial in the long term. Developing countries through increased FDI and better access to world markets, should boost their exports, benefit from advanced techniques and skills, improved productivity, and increased number of productive jobs in the modern sector of the...

With the advent of the era of fast globalization, child labor drew equal attention from perpetrators as well as the protectors. In the case of Soccer Ball Industry in Pakistan, once highlighted by the international media, global actors impacted positively to eliminate child labor from the...

This paper produces first econometric estimates for Germany of the contemporanous wage gap associated with Temporary Help Service (THS) employment, as well as the long-term effects of THS work on the future earnings of workers. In addition, we present evidence showing that average male real...

This paper analyses data from the University of Western Australia (UWA) Graduate Destination Survey linked to information from the University’s Student Records System to explore the determinants of graduates’ starting salaries over the years 2002 to 2004. While the details examined also...

This paper proposes a framework to identify the effects of the mini- mum wage on the joint distribution of sector and wage in a developing country. I show how the discontinuity of the wage distribution around the minimum wage identifies the extent of non-compliance with the minimum wage policy,...

This paper proposes a new framework to empirically assess the effects of the minimum wage in a developing country. This approach allows me to jointly estimate the effects of the minimum wage on unemployment, average wages, (formal to informal) sector mobility, wage inequality, the size of the...