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Changes in the Relative Structure of Wages and Employment : A Comparison of the United States, Canada, and France

Card, David - 2010

Standard models suggest that adverse labor demand shocks will lead to bigger employment losses if institutional factors like minimum wages and trade unions prevent downward wage adjustments. Some economists have argued that this insight explains the contrast between the United States, where real...

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Makroökonomische Dynamik von Arbeitsmärkten : ein Vergleich interner und externer Flexibilitäten in den USA und in Deutschland

Schaz, Philipp; Spitznagel, Eugen - In: WSI-Mitteilungen : Zeitschrift des Wirtschafts- und … 63 (2010) 12, pp. 626-635

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Unemployment in the Great Recession : A Comparison of Germany, Canada and the United States

Hoffmann, Florian - 2014

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … did not change substantially in Germany, increased and remained at relatively high levels in the United States, and … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …

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Country-Specific Preferences and Employment Rates in Europe

Moriconi, Simone - 2015

European countries exhibit significant differences in employment rates of adult males. Differences in labor-leisure preferences, partly determined by cultural values that vary across countries, can be responsible for part of these differences. However, differences in labor market institutions,...

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Wage Flexibility and Employment Fluctuations : Evidence from the Housing Sector

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2016

Many economists suspect that downward nominal wage rigidities in ongoing labor contracts are an important source of employment fluctuations over the business cycle but there is little direct empirical evidence on this conjecture. This paper compares three occupations in the housing sector with...

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Local Labor Markets in Canada and the United States

Albouy, David - 2019

We examine local labor markets in the U.S. and Canada from 1990 to 2011 using comparable household and business data. Wage levels and inequality rise with city population in both countries, albeit less in Canada. Neither country saw wage levels converge despite contrasting migration patterns...

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Euro-Productivity and Euro-Jobs Since the 1960s : Which Institutions Really Mattered?

Allard, Gayle J. - 2010

How have labor market institutions and welfare-state transfers affected jobs and productivity in Western Europe, relative to industrialized Pacific Rim countries? Orthodox criticisms of European government institutions are right in some cases and wrong in others. Protectionist labor-market...

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Micro-Evidence on Product and Labor Market Regime Differences between Chile and France

Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2015

Institutions, social norms and the nature of industrial relations vary greatly between Latin American and Western European countries. Such institutional and organizational differences might shape firms operational environment in general and the type of competition in product and labor markets in...

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The Employment, Earnings, and Income of Less Skilled Workers Over the Business Cycle

Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - 2021

In this paper, I examine the effect of business cycles on the employment, earnings, and income of persons in different demographic groups. I classify individuals by sex, education, and race. The analysis uses data from the Current Population Survey's Outgoing Rotation Group file, covering the...

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Exploring Differences in Employment between Household and Establishment Data

Abraham, Katharine G.; Haltiwanger, John; Sandusky, Lee … - 2021

Using a large data set that links individual Current Population Survey (CPS) records to employer-reported administrative data, we document substantial discrepancies in basic measures of employment status that persist even after controlling for known definitional differences between the two data...

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