This paper sets up a two country monopolistic competition model with intra-industry trade to study the effects of an … exogenous differential in wage and social policies on the location of industry. Two model scenarios are considered. In the … policies and higher wages than the periphery without inducing a relocation of firms. The scope to have higher wage is …

Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women's employment rates but decrease their wages in case of …

role in the determination of wages. Studies, which do not account for wage arrears, overestimate the overall inter-industry …This paper examines the changes in the inter-industry wage structure experienced by Russia since 1993, as part of its … and the RUSSET, we find that since the transformation process began, the dispersion of inter-industry wage structure has …

Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and … combining it with industry level information on industries' outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can … arguably overcome the potential aggregation bias as well as other shortcomings that affect industry level studies. We find that …

formation of reservation wages. Building on the theoretical reasoning of compensating differentials proposing that the labor … market compensates higher wage risk with higher wages, this study investigates whether the gender gap in wage expectations … school graduates in which we elicited information on the entire distribution of expected wages, this study documents that …