This dataset contains statutory and national minimum wages in 30 OECD Member countries, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Malta, Peru, Romania and the Russian Federation. For detailed country notes: see Mini
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We examine local labor markets in the U.S. and Canada from 1990 to 2011 using comparable household and business data. Wage levels and inequality rise with city population in both countries, albeit les
Women work much more in the US than in Germany and most other EU economies. We find that the US-German employment gap is not strongly related to cross-country differences in the level of pay or social
This study contrasts the labor market performance of the U.S. and OECD Europe in the 1980s and critically evaluates the view that the U.S. has generated more jobs because its labor market is more 'fle
