What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection …

Did overseas slave-holding by Britons accelerate the Industrial Revolution? We provide theory and evidence on the …

rate, and appears to be untrended in both countries. Union wages are sticky. c) The size of the wage gap varies across …

Following Phillip's original work on the UK, applied research on unemployment and wages has been dominated by the … Curve, no autoregression is found in wages. The paper casts doubt on standard ideas in macroeconomics, regional economics …

-defined negative causal relationship from wages to employment with the features of a conventional labor demand function. Using …

This paper examines the effect of earnings taxes on the variability of wages over time. We estimate a "hedonic wage … and temporal variation of hourly wages. On the basis of these utility function parameters, we predict that lowering the …

This paper argues that rigid wages cannot provide the underpinnings of a universally valid theory of the business cycle …, simply because wages are not universally rigid. Several different statistical techniques suggest that wage rates in the U … greater flexibility in wages, these two countries also exhibit more stable employment behavior over the business cycle. In …