deals with the effects of openness to trade, foreign direct investment, and financial crises on average wages. Second, it … discusses the impact of exposure to world markets on the dispersion of wages by occupation, skill, and gender. Third, it …

four Latin American economies: Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, during the period 1980-2010. Wages are highly pro …

influence wages directly except for vulnerable minorities that seem protected by unions. Establishment-size wage effects are … paying wages above the market clearing level. The inefficiency arising from establishment-size wage effects can be mitigated …

Africa's labor market. The authors analyze unions' direct effect on workers' wages (including the time-honored question about …), and ask whether there is evidence that industrial council agreements force affected employers to pay union wages for non …

of inequality by income source shows that despite the rapid growth of wages in the 1990s, wage inequality fell modestly …

The authors provide new evidence on the impacts of trade reforms on wages and wage inequality in developing countries … wages and wage inequality. After setting up unusual historical data sets of trends in tariffs, trends in wages, and trends …) has reduced wages, and (2) has increased wage inequality. …

Estimates of labor mobility costs are needed to assess the responses of employment and wages to trade shocks when …