The regional unemployment elasticity of annual earnings for Non-OECD immigrants is found to be more than three times larger than for natives, using micro data covering all immigrants in Norway in 1990 and a random sample of natives. The decline in relative earnings of Non-OECD immigrants from...

Despite some reductions in the male-female pay gap in the post-war period, gender differentials seem to persist in all industrial countries. This is also the case in the Scandinavian countries where the wage dispersion hase been compressed as a consequence of a "solidaric wage policy".