The impact of international trade on wages has received substantial attention in recent decades; but only recently have the specific effects of exporting on wage inequality been investigated in detail. This paper employs the unexpected 1999 Brazilian exchange rate devaluation to identify the effects of exporting on Brazilian manufacturing firm-level wages using employer-employee linked data. We...

Bargained Wages, Wage Drift and the Design of the Wage Setting System This paper aims at answering the question: How does a typically 'European' bargaining system with collective bargaining, extension mechanisms and national minimum wage coexist with low unemployment rate and high wage flexibility? A unique data set on workers, firms and collective bargaining contracts in the Portuguese economy...

This paper examines the relationship between downward nominal wage rigidity and employment outcomes using a novel linked employer-employee dataset from Germany. The estimates suggest wage rigidity prevents 24.5 percent of counterfactual wage cuts, with a standard deviation of 23.5 percent across establishments. An establishment with the average level of wage rigidity is predicted to have a 0.7 ...

An analytical dynamic general equilibrium model of a small open economy with tradeable and nontradeable sectors is constructed. Workers have monopoly power and wage setting is staggered. Initially, the economy is in an inflationary steady state with a floating exchange rate. Money-based disinflation produces a short–run recession in both sectors, whereas exchange-rate-based stabilisation genera...

This study records the impact on workforce retention of the nearly doubling of wages for homecare workers in San Francisco County over a 52-month period. Using descriptive statistics and logistic regression analysis I find that the annual retention rate of new providers rose from 39 percent to 74 percent following significant wage and benefit increases and that a $1 increase in the wage rate fr...

OBJECTIVE This paper aims to assess the affordability of a nutritious diet for households earning minimum wage in Nova Scotia (NS) from 2002 to 2012 using an economic simulation that includes food costing and secondary data. METHODS The cost of the National Nutritious Food Basket (NNFB) was assessed with a stratified, random sample of grocery stores in NS during six time periods: 2002, 2004/2...

This paper presents a model and some empirical findings on a non-linear specification of the wage curve. The model, which builds upon complimentary elements of the classical and imperfect competition models of the labor market, suggests a downward sloping S-shaped curve in wageunemployment space. The rate of unemployment is argued to be a negatively correlated determinant of wages, but bound wi...