characteristics (size, employees’ average education, capital/labor ratio, and remoteness of selling markets) and average wages. We … and quantitatively important positive joint effects on wages. The national-market orientation effects (with respect to … local-market orientation) on labor composition and wages are at least as important as the international-market effects (with …

Expanding women’s outside options, including paid work at living wages, is a mechanism for improving their well … constrain women’s ability to improve their wages, work conditions, and to bargain for more secure jobs. Efforts to bargain for … equity, what can be done to raise women's relative wages and improve labor standards while avoiding negative effects on …

unwilling to find jobs even though they are prepared to work for less than the prevailing wages of incumbent workers ("insiders … wages of the underbidders. The resulting labor turnover costs create economic rent which the insiders tap in wage …

This paper examines the impact of technological innovation on wages using a panel of UK manufacturing firms. We utilize …. Innovating firms are found to have higher average wages, but rival innovation tends to depress own wages. This appears consistent … with a model where wages are partly determined by a sharing in the rents generated by innovation. In other words innovation …

productivity relative to the aggregate economy leads to a rise in relative wages of 0.1-0.2%. As a corollary to this, outside …

We study the impact of new technologies (NT) on wages and employment using a unique panel that matches data on …