-working students to seek employment. Using NLSY97 data, this paper finds that working while enrolled in college decreases the wages one …

change on wages. The narrative describes technological change as allowing for the increased codification of routine tasks … constant measures of occupational task requirements. That approach is unable to explore how wages respond to the time variant …

The Harris-Todaro hypothesis replaces the equality of wages by the equality of ‘expected’ wages as the basic … unemployment when a mechanism for the determination of urban wages is specified. This article reviews work in which the Harris …

Expanding women’s outside options, including paid work at living wages, is a mechanism for improving their well … constrain women’s ability to improve their wages, work conditions, and to bargain for more secure jobs. Efforts to bargain for … equity, what can be done to raise women's relative wages and improve labor standards while avoiding negative effects on …

A popular and highly politicized theme today is that US workers are falling behind as their real wages fall and income …, and at evidence on whether workers real wages have been falling, or perhaps only manufacturing wages. It also examines … seeing how real wages are changing over the recent past. The evidence here provides a perspective on why some analysts might …

) and overestimates the cost-of-living for “cheaper” regions (Northern Ireland, Scotland). When deflating hourly wages by … the regional RPI, the average level of wages is lower from 8% to 11% an hour for all workers in London and the South East …% in levels when deflating wages by the real regional RPI. …