"This paper focuses on how successfully non-metropolitan areas [in the United States] can compete for service-producing industry. Data on wage and salary employment for the 1969-84 period are used to assess how well non-metropolitan areas have been keeping up with metropolitan areas in expanding service jobs. Changes in patterns of employment growth in non-metropolitan and metropolitan servic...

Obesity is associated with serious health problems, and it can generate adverse economic outcomes. We analyze a nationally-representative sample of young American adults to investigate the interplay between obesity, wages and self-esteem. Wages can be impacted directly by obesity, and they can be influenced by obesity indirectly through the channel of obesity to self-esteem to wages. We find th...

In this paper an effort is made in order to investigate the nexus of dynamic interrelations between the general macroeconomic environment of Greek economy with a special reference to the real wages determination. For the causality analysis among real wages, consumer price index, labour productivity, unemployment rate and gross domestic product a multivariate autoregressive VAR model was used, c...

Tests of labor supply models often rely on wages. However, wage variation alone generally cannot disentangle the classical time separable model and its extensions: reference dependent preferences (income targeting) nonseparable (disutility spillovers; timing-specific preferences). We set up a novel laboratory experiment in which individuals choose their working time. vary, independently, wages,...

Do Wages Compensate for Anticipated Working Time Restrictions? Evidence from Seasonal Employment in Austria This paper investigates the existence of compensating wage differentials across seasonal and non seasonal jobs which arise due to anticipated working time restrictions. We build on a theoretical model by Abowd and Ashenfelter (1981), which links the compensating wage differential to varia...

Using manuscript and secondary sources, this paper calculates a consistent series of day wages for male farm workers in England from 1670 to 1850. The new series differs considerably for the years 1790-1820 from the still widely used Bowley series. Wages are also estimated for four regions by quinquennia. The new series suggests that real agricultural wages showed little long term movement in t...

Empirical studies at a firmor sector-level suggest that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) increase wage dispersion by positively impact high skill wages. We contribute to the literature by examining the issue of FDI and wages on a large matched Swedish employer-employee data-set. Results suggest that foreign owned multinational firms (MNCs) tend to pay relatively high-skill wages, especially in c...