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 …