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 …

have substantial effects on wages and income inequality. Urban costs play an important role for locational and economic … with endogenous markups on wages and selection. With increasing commuting technology only more productive and less firms … survive. Firms have higher costs because they have to pay higher wages to compensate workers for the higher urban costs …

-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 …

A number of studies have shown that women’s and men’s wages relate to parenthood in general and to parental leave in … influence paid work. This study uses Swedish register data to analyse the association between care leave and wages among mothers …

Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to … expectations about inflation and future growth. Migration plays a significant role to balance wages across regions and countries …