...Corrado Andini Purpose The paper deals with a classical topic in international macroeconomics and finance: to what extent exchange-rate policies affect domestic macroeconomic outcomes. In particular, it studies whether a fixed exchange-rate policy is likely to impoverish resident wage earners...

... homeownership and human capital. Design/methodology/approach This paper is both theoretical and empirical. A search and matching model of the labour market is developed to explain the strong relation between mortgage markets and wages. A regional panel analysis in Italy is used to verify the interplay...

...Corrado Andini; José Eusébio Santos Purpose The aim is to study the impact of schooling on between-groups wage inequality beyond the lens of the standard approach in the literature. Design/methodology/approach Simple econometric theory is used to make the main point of the paper. Supporting...

...Yot Amornkitvikai; Charles Harvie; Piyapong Sangkaew Purpose The objectives of this study are to investigate the role of wages, skills development and R&D on the productivity of Thai manufacturing firms, using data from the 2017 Industrial Census of Thailand. Design/methodology/approach...

... productive investment. Declining wage shares of national income in most OECD countries since 1990 may be driven in part by financial globalisation. The financial sector contributes to rising income concentration near the top of the distribution in developed countries. The availability of finance...

...Elena Kossova; Bogdan Potanin; Maria Sheluntcova Purpose Purpose of the article is to investigate the effect of marriage on male wages in Russia. The paper provides insight about contribution of observed and unobserved factors to wages of Russian men regarding their marital status. Design...

...Idris Abdullahi Abdulqadir; Soo Y. Chua Purpose The purpose of this article is to investigate the asymmetric impact of exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) on employees' wages via consumer prices in 15 major oil-exporting countries from sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1996-2017 using the panel...

...Victor Rodrigues de Oliveira; Wallace Patrick Santos de Farias Souza; Giácomo Balbinotto Neto; Paulo de Andrade Jacinto Purpose This paper investigates the relationship between (1) business cycle and use of personal contacts to obtain job and (2) use of personal contacts to obtain job and wages...

...GholamReza K. Haddad; Nader Habibi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to estimate the wage difference between overeducated and adequately educated workers in a sample of semi-skilled and low-skill occupations in Iran’s labor market. The objective is to see if overeducated employees...