private sector employment. Our analysis suggests that the dramatic decline of the skill premium in Sweden is the result of an …-10 percent. Since then both skill premia have increased by around 10 percentage points in 2002. Theories that equalize wages with …

The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004 …

Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired … employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages. The reason given is that an increase in insider wages gives rise to a …

dynamics of employment and unemployment in order to identify key issues for the sources of the malfunctioning of these labour … passive labour market policies, and the structure of employment and output. …

. The new jobs created by the MNCs were found in activities with relatively high productivity and wages. This suggests that …

reductions in other sectors. The union campaign aimed to increase employment through ‘work-sharing’, and is being emulated in the … United States with the launch of a reduced hours campaign by the AFL-CIO. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, I …

relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the German Socio … of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than one-half of the gender gap in this … employment of low earners can explain 80% of the rise in relative female wages. There is no evidence that reduction in child care …

The paper analyzes a variety of government policies that can stimulate employment when unemployment is generated … may be ineffective. We show how supply side policies can stimulate employment by raising worker productivity or reducing … labor costs. Our analysis indicates that when wages and prices are flexible, product demand policies have no significant …