Several studies have identified the impact of trade liberalization in developing countries on the return to education within a Mincerian framework through a difference-in-difference estimator or with industry-level measures of trade openness. These studies have typically estimated the return to...

Distortions and resource misallocation cause large productivity losses, especially in developing countries. But removing (all) distortions is infeasible in practice. Policy-makers face second-best policy options at best. However, empirical studies typically do not show the productivity gain from...

This study transforms the October Inquiry' Survey of wages conducted by the International Labour Organization into a consistent data file on pay in 161 occupations in over 150 countries from 1983 to 1998 to examine the pattern of pay across occupations and countries. The new file tells us that:...