Wages Around the World: Pay Across Occupations and Countries

By Richard B. Freeman, Remco Oostendorp. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Public Administration

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FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT, SKILLS AND WAGE INEQUALITY IN EAST ASIA (2004, methodology): “Here we use the available information contained in the ILO database on wage by occupation, discussed and used by Freeman and Oostendorp (2000). We divide occupations (up to a maximum of 160) into skilled and low-skilled workers and track the mean income of skilled and low-skilled occupations by coun”
Income Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants (2011, unknown): “Freeman–Oostendorp data Freeman and Oostendorp (2000) provide estimates of average annual earnings by occupation and industry for a large cross section of countries, covering the years 1983 to 2003.”
Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration Out of Africa (2003, unknown): “His results document highly elastic migration responses to differential wage rates and employment probabilities, following Harris and Todaro (1970). The Lucas study and another by Adams (1993) of rural–urban migration in Egypt both find that, given the incentive to migrate, those with more education”
Export Versus FDI and the Communication of Complex Information (2012, methodology): “Wages relative to the US are constructed using data from Freeman and Oostendorp (2000).”
Rising Wages: Has China Lost its Global Labor Advantage? (2010, unknown): “, Freeman et al., 2001; Majid, 2004), their coverage is typically only up to late 1990s and their focus is not on China’s comparative labor costs relative to other economies. Most closely related to our work is Adams et al. (2006), who compare China’s manufacturing wages as an important factor of gl”
Globalization and the Gender Wage Gap (2004, methodology): “It has typically been found that pay differentials are reduced with strong institutional determination of wages and/or prices (Freeman and Oostendorp 2000). Here we test whether this is also the case for the wage differentials between female and male workers in the same occupations. We have two type”
Selling Labor Low: Wage Responses to Productivity Shocks in Developing Countries (2006, methodology): “The figure plots the magnitude of year-to-year fluctuations in the agricultural wage versus gross domestic product, using Occupational Wages of the World data (Freeman and Oostendorp 2000).”