, which predicts an ambiguous effect on wages: firing costs are expected to increase wages, because they increase the … short-term effect on wages – and also on unemployment. We find larger effects for older than for younger workers and for men … on wages takes place during the first year of the reform. Our simulations also show that the increase in wages is mostly …

Typical measures of wages, such as average hourly earnings, fail to capture cyclicality in the effective cost of labor … in the presence of (i) cyclical fluctuations in the quality of worker-firm matches, or (ii) wages being smoothed within … recession affects user cost: It lowers the new-hire wage; it lowers wages going forward in the match; but it also results in …

We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics …. Although real wages increased seven-fold during the period, growth was uneven across ownership types, industries and regions …. Since the late 1990s, the wages of state-owned enterprises have increased rapidly and wage disparities between skill …

This study contributes to the rapidly growing literature on women in tourism. It focuses on a group of 13 Caribbean …

impact of social security contributions on wages and employment …

asymmetries in the convergence process of the RULCs and its components – real wages, capital intensity, and technology – are …

availability of family-friendly "care" practices and the impact of such practices on wages. The results show that the provision of … and earnings indicating the existence of an implicit market in which workers face reductions in their wages. This result …