ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the role of choice of technology in development policy strategies for income redistribution and poverty alleviation - examines impact on labour force participation and wage structures of low income groups; discusses alternatives based on land reform, rapid...

This paper studies the effect of firm entry deregulation on the returns to skill and education. We exploit a comprehensive episode of entry deregulation, unique in the industrialized world, as a quasi-natural experiment. Using matched employer–employee data for the universe of workers and...

Analyzing data from the Structure of Earnings Surveys we find that wage dispersion in Austria increased marginally between 1996 and 2002. There was an increase in the returns to education which accrued only to male workers. The positive effects of tenure and especially of experience on wages...