literature for over thirty years. The wages and employment o typographers are examined to see whether they can be usefully … characterized as the outcome of a process by which the union maximizes an objective function containing wages and employment and is … wages and employment of these workers compared with our more general formulation …

Two propositions figure prominently in explanations for Britain's comparatively low growth in employment: first, the … wage-setting mechanism is insufficiently responsive to the growth of unemployment and, second, there exists a well …-defined negative causal relationship from wages to employment with the features of a conventional labor demand function. Using …

increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased …, we find increases in wages, employment and firm-creation, especially in high-skilled manufacturing and knowledge …

differences is that Southern European workers are less likely to find employment following displacement. Loss of employer …

European unemployment is widely regarded as a problem of excessive real wages. This view as it is usually expressed … unemployed because it suggests that increases in employment will require reductions in the real wages of those currently employed …. The first part of this paper shows that increases in employment in Europe are likely to be associated with rising real …

unemployment. We show that heterogeneity, reflecting differences in match quality and worker assets, reduces the extent of … fluctuations in separations and unemployment. We find that the model faces a trade-off--it cannot produce both realistic dispersion … in wage growth across workers and realistic cyclical fluctuations in unemployment …

harmed either employment or GDP. Even unemployment benefits do not have robustly negative effects … costly since about 1980, not through overall employment effects, but through the net human-capital cost of protecting senior …

We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … offshoring across occupations. Finally, we survey the literature that examines how offshoring affects employment and displacement …