large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up …

Switzerland, traditionally a ‘zero unemployment’ economy, has seen an unprecedented rise in joblessness in the 1990s … although unemployment fell again to a rather low level after 1997. This paper tests whether Switzerland experienced a negative … shock and find that they were rigid, which can explain the relative unemployment increase for this group. Finally, I test …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an application to western Germany it is demonstrated that nonparametric … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the relative … wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic. We …

employment industry and occupational status in Germany from the beginning of World War II to the post-war reconstruction era …