high-wage workers to low-wage workers and to non-workers, reduce total factor productivity about one percent, reduce per …

empirically investigate the link between firms' choice of worker mix and the implied relationships between productivity and wages … observable characteristics. (ii) We find that new businesses exhibit even greater heterogeneity in earnings and productivity than … different for earnings and productivity, is consistent both with firms learning as they age and with the exit of mistake' prone …

lower wages in the beginning of their career. Later they earn a return on these implicit investments through higher wages …

inventors crowd out native inventors, or an underestimate if immigrants have positive spill-overs on inventors. Using a 1950 …-2000 state panel, we show that natives are not crowded out by immigrants, and that immigrants do have positive spill-overs …

Does attracting or losing jobs in high paying sectors have important spill-over effects on wages in other sectors? The … relationship between changes in industry-specific city-level wages and changes in industrial composition. Our finding is that the … very substantial and persistent. Our point estimates indicate that the total effect on average wages of a change in …

This study transforms the October Inquiry' Survey of wages conducted by the International Labour Organization into a … while rising markedly in countries moving from communism to free markets and in lower middle income countries. 2. Wages in …

account for individual differences in young adults' capacities to acquire such skills and be productive in the work force …

, changes in industry wages that hurt sectors with initially lower wages and a higher fraction of unskilled workers, and shifts … of the labor force towards the informal sector that typically pays lower wages and offers no benefits. Our results … industry wages, we find that wage premiums decreased by more in sectors that experienced larger tariff cuts. Finally, we find …