We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms …

Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to … expectations about inflation and future growth. Migration plays a significant role to balance wages across regions and countries …

labour market interdependencies and the consequences of trade liberalisation for union wages. The analysis suggests that … national wages are likely to be strategic complements (substitutes), if products are ordinary substitutes (complements). Under … the assumption of linear demand it is shown that bilateral trade liberalisation always leads to higher union set wages and …

wages, but some studies using Norwegian micro data have estimated a negative effect of higher immigration for some type of … workers. In this paper, to capture that the wage setting is highly coordinated in Norway, we model a system of native wages … impact on wages has been in the private service industries. Immigration is found to be exogenous with respect to the …

works councils has a positive effect on wages within the uncovered industrial relations regime but not to the same degree …

In a framework of a unionised oligopoly, this paper reconsiders the impact of the bargaining structure on union wages … argument will be that negotiated wages rather depend on the technical relationship between different groups of labour and goods …

works councils has a positive effect on wages within the uncovered industrial relations regime but not to the same degree …