finds equivocal effects on other aggregate outcomes, such as employment and unemployment. Given weaknesses in the …

. We explore this idea across the US and EU countries estimating gender gaps in potential wages. We recover information on … wages for those not in work in a given year using alternative imputation techniques. Imputation is based on (i) wage …

While there has been intense debate in the empirical literature about the effects of minimum wages on inequality in the …

We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality, attending to two issues that …

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment … rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical search and matching model. This paper provides … cyclicality of wages if the replacement ratio is implausibly high. We show that this failure remains even if wages are only …

, selective survey of the literature. Four fundamental questions are explored: how are unemployment, job vacancies, and employment …? How are wages determined? What role do labor market dynamics play in explaining business cycles and growth? The survey …

typicallyheld by less skilled workers. Firms in Europe have more incentives to invest in less skilledworkers, because minimum wages … or union contracts mandate that relatively high wages haveto be paid to these workers. I report some empirical evidence …

labor share, employment and wages respond to privatization and other regulatory changes. We exploit cross-country panel data …