In this paper we model the determinants of firm level wages and employment explicitly allowing for firm and worker …

to be lower for domestic entrepreneurs than for foreign ones, but foreign producers enjoy a countervailing productivity … advantage. Under these asymmetries, multinationals pay higher wages than domestic producers, in line with the insight of … efficiency wages and with the evidence about the multinationals wage premium.' FDI is also more sensitive to increases in …

period of the contract. The only important exception is the indexing of wages to the cost of living. 2. Employers are … the other hand, current wages in other industries have an important influence. This feature especially has been denied or …

supportive of the relevance of these theories. Ford's decision to dramatically increase wages is most plausibly portrayed as the … substantial queues for Ford jobs. Finally, significant increases in productivity and profits at Ford accompanied the introduction …

decisions, firm entry and exit, and transitory firm productivity shocks are incorporated into the model.Given that the cost of … which wages are not contingent on firm size but more productive employers always pay higher wages. Although the state space …

to study the effects of firm-level contracting on the structure of wages. We estimate a series of wage determination …

welfare). I argue that while policies to favor high wage industries may increase productivity, the effects in developed …

engineers proportion (SEP) of employment, and productivity and labor earnings. We show that: (1) most scientists and engineers …&D); (2) productivity is higher in manufacturing establishments with higher SEP, and increases with increases in SEP; (3 … important pathway for increasing productivity and earnings, separate and distinct from the work of scientists and engineers who …