Wages for Intern Work

Women’s Work and Wages*

Welfare-to-Work, Wages and Wage Growth

This paper attempts to uncover the effects of a welfare-to-work programme, that acts as a wage subsidy, on wage growth by exploiting an expansion to this welfare programme in the UK. The conventional wisdom is that such programmes trap recipients into low wage, low quality work – this comes from the simple argument that the “poverty trap”, which a wage subsidy for low income workers, induces re...

Education , Work and Wages in the UK

This paper is concerned with the relationship between education, wages and working behaviour. The work is partly motivated by the sharp distinction in the literature between the returns to education and the effect of wages on labour supply. Education is the investment that cumulates in the form of human capital while labour supply is the utilization rate of that stock. Yet, variation in educati...

Testing For Efficiency Wages In Iran

Wages, Work Intensity and Unemployment in Japan, UK and USA

This paper focuses on the impact of excess labour supply on wage inflation in Japan, the US and the UK. We extend the usual analysis to incorporate the impact of excess supply within the firm. Our estimated wage equations provide some support for the widely held view that the US labour market is inherently more " flexible " than that in Japan or the UK. In particular, US wages respond quickly t...