We examine the association between brain types and wages using the UK Behavioural Study dataset for the period 2011 to … 2013 (four waves). By applying Empathising-Systemising Theory (E-S), the estimations suggest that, for men and women …

The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study … is set in an economy with close to complete union coverage where real wages have grown continuously in all parts of the … estimated elasticity of wages. Wage adjustments are larger for employees with high unemployment risk and for new hires entering …

Wages grow and become more unequal as workers age. Economic theory focuses on worker investment in human capital …

Offering higher wages may enable firms to attract more applicants and screen them more carefully. If firms compete in … this way in the labor market, "selection wages" emerge. This note illustrates this wage-setting mechanism. Selection wages …

This paper studies the link between a firm's education level, export performance and wages of its workers. We argue … find that firms with high export intensities pay higher wages. However, an interaction term between export intensity and … skill intensity has a positive impact on wages and it absorbs the direct effect of the export intensity. That is, we find an …

Immigration to the UK has risen over time. Existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native … immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled time series of British cross …-sectional micro data of observations on male wages and employment from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s. This lack of substitution also …

markets. Local differences in wage-setting power predict 1.1-1.6% higher wages from a 100 log points increase in population …