The paper focuses on labor and product market deregulations, as fundamental elements in the passage from an investment …

1990, we find that at the urban level richer diversity is systematically associated with higher average nominal wages for … the positive correlation between wages and diversity survives a battery of robustness checks, it seems to be larger once … wages. Comparing real and nominal wages across cities, we interpret these results as evidence that diversity enhances …

relationship between firm age and employee compensation as well as firm age and firm productivity suggest that there may be at …

wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the lowest wage in the market exceeds the minimum wage. The model has …

productivity) is low. Secondly, our estimates of the effects of training on wages are about half the size of the effects on …There is a vast empirical literature on the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of … productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity …

Trefler (2004, AER) and others that industrial productivity increases more strongly in liberalized industries than in non … productivity increases more strongly in non-liberalized industries than in liberalized industries. …

, with adverse consequences for negotiated wages and union utilities. In this paper, we take a new angle at this issue and … networks. Our results show that cooperation is clearly beneficial for unions if their preferences regarding wages and …

We estimate the effect of imported machines on the wages of machine operators utilizing Hungarian linked employer … the worker. We find that workers exposed to imported machines earn about 8 percent higher wages than other machine …