explains the contrast between the United States, where real wages fell over the 1980s and aggregate employment expanded … vigorously, and Europe, where real wages were (roughly) constant and employment was stagnant. We test this hypothesis by … comparing changes in wages and employment rates over the 1980s for different age and education groups in the United States …

without a college education. Though wages and participation have fallen in tandem for this population, we argue that the …

In this paper, we analyse the role of the changing nature of occupational employment and wages in explaining the trend … in earnings inequality in Ghana between 2006 and 2017, a period in which there was a substantial transformation of the … context of a stagnant manufacturing sector and an oil-based expansion. We show that there was an initial decline in earnings …