relative wage of the skilled. Increasing unemployment results only for a restrictive assumption about labor market rigidities. …

We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers’ wages are unaffected or even tend to … effects on either wages or employment probabilities in manufacturing. In the service industries, workers are affected in terms …

This paper evaluates the implications for employment, productivity and wages of allowing for more flexibility in weekly …

economies. Based on the neoclassical tradition, the ratio of the marginal product of labor to real wages is generally defined as … manufacturing sector in OECD economies and investigate its relation to the unemployment rate along with other variables such as … and significantly positive response to shocks to the unemployment rate and negative response to shocks to unionization. …

privatization of public companies impact on the distribution of employment and wages between the formal and the informal sector. We …

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … heterogeneous within skill groups. We test this hypothesis by combining micro-level information on wages and demographic and …

Several authors have proposed staggered wage bargaining as a way to introduce sticky wages into search and matching … a series of estimated shocks from US data into a search and matching model with sticky prices and wages. I compare the … implications of how the sticky wages enter into the hiring decision, and there seems to be a tradeoff between generating business …

die jeweils zugrunde liegende politische Situation als auch bezüglich der Höhe der Arbeitslosigkeit. Es wird gezeigt, daß …>In search of an efficient system of unemployment insurance the authors take a look at German history. Four periods of German … unemployment insurance are analyzed, namely those of 1871/1914, 1918/32, 1933/39 and 1949/2001. These periods differ greatly with …

Es wird untersucht, wie ein System privater Versicherungen gegen das Risiko der Arbeitslosigkeit beschaffen sein sollte … Verminderung von Arbeitslosigkeit gibt. Für die Arbeitnehmer wird ein Modell zur Bestimmung des individuellen Risikos und der … privater Arbeitslosenversicherung eingegangen. <p>The authors suggest a dual-system model of private unemployment insurance …