relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the German Socio … of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than one-half of the gender gap in this … hazard rate, since low earners were more likely to leave employment, and were disproportionately female. The withdrawal from …

In traditional Keynesian and neoclassical models, the transmission of product demand changes to the labour market … product demand can affect employment under these conditions. The analysis suggests that the longer-term effectiveness of …

implications for the labour market. The analysis focuses on the switch from occupational specialization at 'Tayloristic … combinations of skills and thereby 'resegment' the labour market, raising the wages and job opportunities of some workers relative …

reductions in other sectors. The union campaign aimed to increase employment through ‘work-sharing’, and is being emulated in the …

It is widely believed that the integration of European economies will have little impact on labour mobility. This does … not mean, however, that European labour markets will be unaffected by the process of economic integration. In this paper …

negotiations. Wage and employment decisions are assumed to be made before business conditions are known; thus these decisions … effectiveness of various government policies on production, employment, and pricing. Hysteresis is shown to be a special case in a …

The paper analyzes a variety of government policies that can stimulate employment when unemployment is generated … may be ineffective. We show how supply side policies can stimulate employment by raising worker productivity or reducing … effect on employment unless these policies stimulate labor productivity, the entry of firms, capital utilization or …

lower unemployment. Whether ‘work-sharing’ works – whether employment rises when hours per worker are reduced – is … standard hours, employment rose by 0.3–0.7%, but that total hours worked fell by 2–3%, implying possible output losses. As a … group, however, workers were better off as the wage bill rose. The employment growth implied by the mean standard hours …

Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …, contributed to an employment shortfall equivalent to 40 percent of the missing employment decline in the recession. Another 20 …