microeconomic data for more than 100,000 European individuals, the results show that welfare regimes make a difference for wages and … regional interpersonal income and educational inequality, also influence wages and education in different ways across welfare …

Questionable methods for increasing nominal wages reduce real wages (i.e., buying power) by creating inflation …, shortages, lower quality, and long-term unemployment. To increase real wages (i.e., the ability to buy more), economic … increasing the value of output (i.e., greater customer benefits) through innovation. Beyond increasing real wages, innovation …

This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing … importance of foreign wages versus domestic productivity developments in an open environment. We find that trade is not an … important driver of wages, since the wage response to trade is small. Moreover, in line with the Stolper-Samuelson reasoning …

concordance. We apply this descriptive measure by exploring the relationship between wages and labour productivity in Slovenia for … the period 1998–2007. We are able to confirm the hypothesis of high concordance between wages and labour productivity …, which indicates a stimulative role of wages in production of market traded goods and services. …

-known explanation is that resource endowments in Africa favour land not labour, which results in high wages, especially in comparison … demonstrate that the lack of competitiveness of manufacturing industries is not caused by high wages. Assuming a direct …