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of labor market programs on youth employment. We find that the slump in the 1990s has been associated with dramatic … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … for labor by skill attributable to technological innovation. The employment crisis has been met by an unprecedented …
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Recent analyses of wage bargaining has emphasized the distinction between insiders and outsiders, yet one typically assumes that insiders and recently hired outsiders are paid the same wage. We consider a model where the starting wage for outsiders may be lower that the insider wage, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669586
We study how workers’ wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms’labor productivity. Using unique data with … of wages to sectoral labor productivity is almost three times larger than the response to pure idiosyncratic (firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645246
Recent analyses of wage bargaining has emphasized the distinction between insiders and outsiders, yet one typically assumes that insiders and recently hired outsiders are paid the same wage. We consider a model where the starting wage for outsiders may be lower than the insider wage, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419176
response to changes in the product market appears to be variations in employment. We also examine whether trade has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419200
bargaining in the 1980s might have allowed low-productivity firms to survive or increased wage mark-ups, making employment more … sensitive to shocks. In Swedish plant-level data for manufacturing 1968-1992 relatively less employment is in low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642473
The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s … by a period of sharp deflation where nominal wages and prices fell by 30 percent and unemployment increased from 5 to 30 … percent. We examine whether relatively standard wage and employment equations can account for the volatile economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690423
The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s … by a period of sharp deflation where nominal wages and prices fell by 30 percent and unemployment increased from 5 to 30 … percent. We examine whether relatively standard wage and employment equations can account for the volatile economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818822
bargaining in the 1980s might have allowed low-productivity firms to survive or increased wage mark-ups, making employment more … sensitive to shocks. In Swedish plant-level data for manufacturing 1968-1992 relatively less employment is in low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005634549
response to changes in the product market appears to be variations in employment. We also examine whether trade has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005634561