... improve working conditions and pay living wages in developing countries. This chapter analyzes consumer demand, stimulated by vigilante intermediaries, for corporations to improve working conditions in supplier factories. It examines the incentives that exist for firms to respond to this demand, assesses...

... that it is possible to derive robustly optimal monetary policy rule for optimizing models of the monetary transmission mechanism that incorporate a number of common features of recent empirical models: staggered wage- and price-setting; inflation inertia resulting from automatic indexation of wages and prices...

...We summarize a framework for studying the implications of automation and AI on the demand for labor, wages, and employment. Our framework emphasizes the displacement effect that automation creates as machines and AI replace labor. This displacement effect tends to reduce demand for labor and wages...

...This chapter describes key technologies and social formations, which placed nineteenth-century agronomists at the center of the modern wage question. Agronomists viewed plants and animals as objects of economic management, whose needs could be measured in units of carbon and nitrogen. Agronomist...

... an impact on current age ratios by inducing inter- and intranational migration, with workers moving to areas with higher wages and lower unemployment. data limitations material aspirations preference formation aggregate data relative income wages general Korenman S Macdonald M M Okun B S Olneck M R...

...This chapter analyzes the wages at all age levels throughout the workforce. It tries to identify whether the age structure of the population has had a significant effect on the primary dimensions of inequality in the United States over the last thirty-five years: on the return to experience...

...” of the marriage market when there is a relative shortage of unmarried men about two years older than themselves. Rising women's wages appear to have encouraged marriage and discouraged divorce among young working women. Godwin Peter Manning W D Smock P J cohabitation data limitations divorce rates family...

...This chapter develops a simple general equilibrium open-economy model in which real exchange rates play a central role in the adjustment process, wages and prices are sticky in terms of domestic currency, liabilities are dollarized, and the country risk premium is endogenously determined by the net...

... for imputing topcoded wages. In addition, we received useful input for this line of research from Daniel Aaronson, Gary Burtless, Julie Hotchkiss, Chinhui Juhn, Joseph Lupton, Lisa Lynch, Mark Schweitzer, Daniel Sullivan, Joyce Zickler, and seminar participants at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Leslie Carroll...

..., and then discusses wages, productivity, exports, and the introduction of new industries on the host-country side. A commentary is also included at the end of the chapter. Wilkins Mira Lipsey Robert E Foreign direct investment FDI concepts of Caves Richard E Dunning John H Hymer Stephen H Kindleberger Charles P...

..., the PSE-Jourdan seminar on labor markets and inequalities (especially Andrew Clark), and the TEAM Seminar of the Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne for their comments. A main contribution of linked longitudinal employer-employee data is to provide a decomposition of wage rates into components due...

... Pathak P A Yariv L Kagel J H McKinney C N Bulow J Levin J Bauer W T Meyer B D Gerson L Fairbanks A Haruvy E nver M U Zeckhauser R Ehrinpreis M N Harner C D Xing X Fréchette G Halaburda H W Li H Rosen S Suen W Segal I Coles P clearinghouse job placement wages gastroenterology...

... signed between the THS firm and the placement firm, which sets it apart from a traditional labor contract between a worker and a firm. The comparison of mean wages points to a substantial and significant wage difference between THS and regular workers, despite the stringent legal requirements. Using...

...This chapter explores the link between tariff changes and the wages of workers in Poland. The data indicate that workers in sectors that experienced the largest tariff declines experienced the highest increases in wages. Workers in industries with lower tariffs tended to have higher wages...

...This chapter explores the impact of financial crisis on the poor in Indonesia. It demonstrates that in the first year of the crisis, poverty rose by between 50 and 100 percent, real wages declined by around 40 percent, and household per capita consumption fell by around 15 percent. The crisis...

... and play throughout the day. Amidst all these changes, people still wish for certain forms of complementarity, such as time off that is coordinated with friends and family, or sequences of wages that grow over time. These forms of lumpiness matter too, as do cliff-like consequences that can accompany...

... in western Kenya had already suffered their share of misfortune at the beginning of that decade, as locusts and drought had destroyed their crops for three consecutive years. The locust invasions instigated an exodus of people to the mines to secure jobs and earn money to buy food. Wages in the mines were...

... by about 80–90 basis points until 2050, with a corresponding increase of wages if PAYGO Social Security systems are reformed such that contribution rates are held constant. It is also shown that increasing the mandatory retirement age by five years is shown to mitigate substantially these losses...

... Toshiaki Tachibanaki is professor of economics at Kyoto University. Tetsuya Maruyama is a graduate student of economics at the University of Pennsylvania. This chapter examines the relationships between promotion, effort incentive, and wages for white-collar workers in several large Japanese firms...

... “Discrepancies between Market and Firm Wages: An Analysis of Earnings and Worker Mobility” within the German Research Foundation's (DFG) research program “Flexibility in Heterogenous Labor Markets” (SSP 1169). This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant number...