This paper studies the dynamics of labour demand and the determinants of employment rates across the OECD. We find: (i …) labour demand adjusts less rapidly when employment protection is more strict and union density is higher; (ii) there is no … evidence that overall job turnover is influenced by employment protection; (iii) union density and coverage are negatively …

wages, employment, occupations and locations of blue-collar native workers. The natives in the sample are initially in … positively selected natives towards occupations with less routine tasks. While we find no negative impact on employment, there is … substantial evidence that immigration lowers the median annual wages of natives. The estimated negative effects are also much …

have occurred due to changes in factor prices: a large fall in real wages and increases in the cost of capital. In previous … recessions real wages did not fall, but reforms to union strength and welfare have made wages more sensitive to negative demand …

import competition experienced slower growth in manufacturing wages and in-migration rates between 2000 and 2010, and greater …

This paper considers the impact of public sector employment on local labour markets. Using English data at the Local … Authority level for 2003–2007 we find that public sector employment has no identifiable effect on total private sector … employment. However, public sector employment does affect the sectoral composition of the private sector. Specifically, each …

Common wisdom states that teenage childbearing reduces schooling, labour market experience and adult wages. However … childbearing decreases the probability of post-16 schooling by 12% to 24%. Employment experience is reduced by up to three years …

becoming unemployed, the costs of unemployment in terms of real wages losses and the probability that the continuously employed …

wages in new matches. I summarize microeconometric evidence on wages in new matches and show that the key model elasticities … cyclical volatility of wages. I discuss some extensions of the model that can increase cyclical unemployment volatility through …