contemporary labor issues in North America and Europe, from reserve rules and free agency, high levels of player pay and work …

Recession and the economic slowdown in Europe just prior to the COVID19 pandemic …

. Results are presented for the U. S., Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies. The … primary theme of the paper is that differences between Europe and the U. S. have been substantially exaggerated in recent work …. Europe has neither greater nominal wage flexibility nor more rigid real wages than the U. S. Evidence that the U. S. exhibits …

Europe in the past fifteen years. In the first section of this paper, I review the recent proliferation of supply-side models … that say interesting things about why the NAIRU hasincreased so substantially in Europe. In the second section of the paper …

Many low skilled jobs have been substituted away for machines in Europe, or eliminated, much more so than in the US …, while technological progress at the "top", i.e. at the high-tech sector, is faster in the US than in Europe. This paper … suggests that the main difference between Europe and the US in this respect is their different labor market policies. European …

global economy. It builds on the models of Davis (1997a, b) of trade between a flexible wage America and a rigid wage Europe …

predictions of our simple model are consistent with the contrasting performance of the labor market in Europe and US in terms of … the economy with unemployment insurance (Europe). As a result, unemployment doubles in this economy. In the laissez …