Education affects wages because it allows access to occupations of higher status that offer greater earnings.

"High housing prices affect wages and ultimately could make California a noncompetitive economy."

Indeed, the results are all the more dramatic; large populations of illegal immigrants apparently do not affect wages or employment opportunities.

This theory has been greatly modified by the discovery of other conditions affecting wages, which it does not take into account.

Some of his best work is on microeconomics of full employment and how prices affect wages.

The crisis would dramatically affect English agriculture, wages and prices for the remainder of the medieval period.

Still, he said, the model suggests that an inability to personalize offers can affect wages.

The evidence examined in the article also suggested that Estonian language ability does not significantly affect wages.

Also on an international scale, the price of grain rose in response to demand, and this in turn affected wages.

Population decline, of course, was not the only factor which could affect wages.