Even though institutions are created to protect workers, they may interfere with labor market functioning, raise … unemployment, and end up being circumvented by informal contracts. This paper uses Brazilian microeconomic data to show that the … could have contributed to the ensuing higher rates of unemployment in the country. Moreover, the paper shows that states …

Using household level data for France from 1990 to 2000, we estimate a relationship between wages and unemployment …

for interpreting trends in wage shares, capital-labor ratios, and aggregate unemployment. …

The literature on the relationship between the unemployment rate and wage bargaining fails to separate the offsetting … effects of a reduction in competition associated with centralized bargaining and the increased awareness of unemployment … unemployment rate in countries that have switched to centralized wage-bargaining arrangements, the industry wage is not …

market flows on wage formation as an alternative to the traditional specification of wage equations in which unemployment …

unemployment or faster growth. Weak output growth after such a cost shock is somewhat puzzling and has led some to question the … structurally slower real wage growth, that is, "wage moderation," does raise output growth and lower unemployment rates. However, I …