The relationship between unemployment and the rate of change of money wages in interwar Britain is re-examined. It is …-term unemployment did not act as a restraint on the growth of money wages. New estimates of the wage equation imply that the NAIRU rose …

determine local wages and unemployment; when mobility between regions is obstructed by rent subsidies and controls, unemployment … regions wages respond predominantly). The hypothesis is tested on United Kingdom regional unemployment data from 1963 to 1979 …

discrimination. Using data collected in the 1980 Women and Employment Survey, we find that women's wages would be between 20 and 25 …

while lower-ranking executives see their wages fall. Third, higher competition is associated with a higher probability of …

dispersion of wages increase with competition using a large panel of United Kingdom workers with complete work histories. I …

unionized workforce. We develop a simple efficiency wage model, with a tradeoff between higher wages for workers and more … variety of data sets, we examine the implications of the model for the relationship between the employment and wages of … unionization in an industry and region and a higher union wage differential are associated with fewer managers. (2) Managers' wages …

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 …