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 …

justified the relative stability of educational wage premia. Relative wages did not, however, respond to negative net demand …

wages, particularly for unskilled workers. Further reductions in non-tariff barriers produce a less well-determined effect … affect wages so markedly. …

This Paper presents new estimates of the impact of job tenure on wages using a new French matched worker-firm dataset … valid instrumental variable for identifying the impact of job tenure on wages. Our new IV estimate of the return to job … relatively high wage offers tend to change firms more rapidly: they tend to have relatively high wages and low job tenure …

There is a vast empirical literature on the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of … Force Survey. This is combined with complementary industry-level data sources on value added, wages, labour and capital. We … productivity) is low. Secondly, our estimates of the effects of training on wages are about half the size of the effects on …

then simultaneously estimate the impact that changes in domestic sugar prices have on regional wages and employment … experience larger income gains due to higher wages, whereas households at the bottom of the distribution experience larger income …

existing method may yield positive or negative externalities even if wages reflect marginal social products. We propose an …