Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilizing a large household panel and …-level studies. We find that outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Applying two alternative skill classifications we find … to 1.5% while it increased wages for high-skilled workers by up to 2.6%. This result is robust to a number of different …

financially constrained offer an increasing wage profile: they pay lower wages today in exchange of higher wages once they become … unconstrained and operate at a larger scale. In equilibrium, constrained firms are on average smaller and pay lower wages. In this … way the model generates a positive relation between firm size and wages. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey …

layer is very positively (negatively) correlated with value added. We then explore the changes in the wages and number of … expand substantially add layers and pay lower average wages in all pre-existing layers. In contrast, firms that expand little … and do not reorganize pay higher average wages in all pre-existing layers. …

paying higher wages to enjoy non-pecuniary private benefits such as lower effort wage bargaining and improved social …

theory. The sources of the wage growth are: (i) the rise of the return to imported human capital; (ii) the impact of … capital theory, we derive a non-linear model that imposes restrictions across the earning equations of natives and immigrants … following arrival, wages of highly skilled immigrants grow at 8% a year. Rising prices of skills, occupational transitions …

Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new …