This paper estimates the effect that changes in the size of the youth population have on the wages of young workers … age groups earn lower wages. We test this hypothesis for a sample of young, male, fulltime employees in Western Germany … estimation, we show that an increase in the youth share by one percentage point is predicted to decrease a young worker's wages …

positive wage effect of about the same size. The wages of females are not affected by smoking and drinking. …

forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages … estimate the impact of training - controlling for its financing method - on wages levels and wages growth. We find that … employer-financed training increases wages both in the current and future firms, with some evidence that the impact in future …

We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms …

volunteering on wages gives support to the hypotheses that volunteering enables the access to fruitful informal networks, avoids …

-graduation starting real wages and whether the latter are differently influenced by the reasons behind these discontinuities. We analyse … instruments. Conditional on the levels of schooling and experience, we find a positive effect on wages of temporary schooling …

wages reflect this, with lower pay for greater uncertainty. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of education … as an indicator of the unobserved heterogeneity that employers face. We find solid evidence that starting wages are lower …