Centralized wage-setting institutions compress relative wages. Motivated by this fact, we investigate the effects of centralized wage setting on the industry distribution of employment. We examine Sweden's industry distribution from 1960 to 1994 and compare it to the U.S. distribution over the...

In 1986, Congress attempted to reduce the incentives for unauthorized migration by eliminating U.S. employment opportunities for unauthorized workers. To recognize the commitment that many unauthorized workers had already made to the U.S. labor market, amnesty was granted to approximately 1.7...

This paper analyses the decline in unskilled employment in UK manufacturing.

What were the asserted complementarities between the welfare state and full-employment policies, and why do these complementarities look less convincing today?

What factors determine national differences in the size and industry distribution of employment? This study stresses the role of business taxation, employment security laws, credit market policies, wage-setting institutions and the size of the public sector.

What were the asserted complementarities between the welfare state and full-employment policies, and why do these complementarities look less convincing today?

This paper reviews tha main trends and patterns in labour supply in Australia since the mid-1960s, and summarieses a number of themes which have emerged from research on causes of changes in labour market.

This study examines the determinants of the employment status of Indigenous Australians using data from the 1994 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey.

Societies typically have three objectives for work and welfare: sustained income/economic growth per capita, employment growth (and job security?), a just distribution of income along with access to certain basic services. There may be tensions between these objectives. This paper tries to...