Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers … countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and only modest effects on wage differentials between more and less … educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers' wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …

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. …

This paper contributes to the literature on overeducation by empirically investigating its effects on wages among Ph … individual wages. It leads to a wage penalty of about between 23% and 25%, more than twice bigger than average, a sizeable gap …

strong evidence that lower unemployment benefit has an adverse effect on wages. We use panel data to identify and estimate …. In eastern Germany there is no systematic difference between men and women but the negative impact on wages is confirmed. …

volunteering on wages gives support to the hypotheses that volunteering enables the access to fruitful informal networks, avoids …

-graduation starting real wages and whether the latter are differently influenced by the reasons behind these discontinuities. We analyse … instruments. Conditional on the levels of schooling and experience, we find a positive effect on wages of temporary schooling …