% to 73% in six years, and the decline for women was considerably larger. This employment fall is possibly the worst of any …, using the 1990-1996 survey years of the German Socio-Economic Panel. Individuals over fifty and women have much longer non …

, and women and the less educated specifically. In the 1991-1996 period the biggest gainers were women and the better …

This paper presents a wage series for unskilled English women workers from 1260 to 1850 and compares it with existing … evidence for men. Our series cast light on long run trends in women’s agency and wellbeing, revealing an intractable, indeed … widening gap between women and men’s remuneration in the centuries following the Black Death. This informs several recent …

substantiate the union’s claim of ‘full wage compensation’, however: reductions in standard hours were accompanied by a relative …

across regions and on the resulting location of industrial activity. In particular, it studies what happens when wages in … both regions are set by the unions of the ‘West’ – the region with a greater initial relative stock of human capital. We … show that in some circumstances, it is in the interest of the West’s unions to set a speed of wage convergence greater than …

unemployment: labour unions, supply shocks combined with real wage rigidity, and automation and trade combined with real wage …

size of financial costs for violations against individuals of specific provisions of the NLRA by firms and unions for the …

insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression … balance between two offsetting forces: UI causes agents to seek higher-wage jobs, but also reduces wages by lengthening … both in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by …