The paper “At work but earning less: Trends in decent pay and minimum wages for young people” reviews existing literature and analyses recent data on young workers’ earnings. The findings of the paper point to the increase over time of the youth wage discount, i.e. the wage gap between...

This article exploits a sub-sample of the French employment survey data of 2009 of the Insee (National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies) to deduct in the style of Lancaster and Chesher (1983) the additional stylized parameters of the model of job search, that is the reservation wage...

Focuses on country systems for regulating low-wage work.

Refers to the Minimum Wage Act of 1948. Estimates that minimum wage has no adverse affects on the demand for labour, the Gini effect for wage inequality would decrease, and the gender wage gap could be reduced.

Focuses on relationship between the organization of labour markets and other srtructural and economic features, both across countries and in different historical circumstances.

A la suite notamment des travaux de Card et Krueger en 1992, une abondante littérature micro-économétrique, principalement développée aux Etats-Unis, a étudié les liens entre qualité de l'éducation, mesurée par différents inputs éducatifs et salaires des diplômés ou les rendements...

Joseph Stiglitz est un économiste américain non conformiste et iconoclaste. Il appartient au courant keynésien. Il a reçu le prix Nobel en 2001 (avec George Akerlof et Michael Spence) pour ses travaux sur les « asymétries d’information » et les phénomènes d’antisélection. Stiglitz...