As of 2020, millions of restaurant workers across the U.S. labor for an hourly wage below—even substantially below—the ordinary federal minimum wage. These workers earn a significant portion of their incomes in gratuities, directly from the customers they serve. The special lega…
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This thesis extends the existing literature on the response of labour markets to different types of economic shocks. First, we examine the effects of sector-specific fluctuations in job separation and job finding rates on the overall unemployment, sectoral allocation of labour a…
The first chapter looks at the effects of delaying marriage on individual's wage in the labor market. Delaying marriage is a key feature of demographic transition in most countries. Thus, many economists and sociologists have given this trend much attention. While many theories …
By almost any measure, globalization has increased tremendously over the last few decades. World trade of goods and services, and financial flows have risen, while costs of transportation, communication and information, and tariffs have fallen. In conjunction with the growth of …
This dissertation is a collection of three papers in public choice. The first paper offers a dynamic model to explain the rationale behind "populist" policies. The effects of uncertainty about future policies, costly redistribution, and implicit tax limits are evaluated. I show …
This dissertation attempts two related tasks. It studies the effect of schooling costs on educational attainment. Then, given endogenous schooling, it uses measures of such costs to identify the causal effect of schooling on labor market outcomes. The particular outcome studied …
This dissertation explores the effects of foreign ownership on labor markets in developing economies, focusing on the wage differentials observed between multinational and local firms. The first chapter conjectures that the premiums to employment in establishments with foreign d…
This descriptive study explored the concerns, beliefs, and the overall perceptions of Nigerian public/civil servants toward widespread bribery and corruption in the Nigeria workforce. Over the last 15 years, Nigeria has been cited as the most corrupt country in the world because…
Previous tests of the positive wage-productivity relationship, as suggested by the efficiency wage model, have neglected to control for the effects of rent sharing effectively. Establishing support for the efficiency wage model necessitates the demarcation of the positive wage-p…
This dissertation is made up of three essays that examine the accumulation of human capital by individuals and the rewards to human capital in the labor market. The first essay evaluates the relationship between language skills and earnings. Unlike previous studies that analyze …