Workers participating in firm-sponsored training receive higher wages as a result. But given that firms pay the …

This paper estimates the effect that changes in the size of the youth population have on the wages of young workers … age groups earn lower wages. We test this hypothesis for a sample of young, male, fulltime employees in Western Germany … estimation, we show that an increase in the youth share by one percentage point is predicted to decrease a young worker's wages …

positive wage effect of about the same size. The wages of females are not affected by smoking and drinking. …

forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages … estimate the impact of training - controlling for its financing method - on wages levels and wages growth. We find that … employer-financed training increases wages both in the current and future firms, with some evidence that the impact in future …

We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms …

the quality of the work found by the unemployed. This quality rise, in terms of both wages and duration, can be achieved …

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 …