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Institutioneller Wandel, Beschäftigung und Effizienz : ein deutsch-britischer Vergleich zur Klärung eines komplexen Zusammenhanges Beschäftigungstheorie

Heise, Arne - In: WSI-Mitteilungen : Zeitschrift des Wirtschafts- und … 51 (1998) 4, pp. 233-241

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Structural and Cyclical Forces in the Labor Market During the Great Recession : Cross-Country Evidence

Sala, Luca - 2012

price and wage rigidities to study four countries (the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, and Germany) during the financial crisis and … factors were also important in the U.K., but less so in Sweden and Germany. Reduced matching efficiency was considerably less … important in the U.K. and Sweden than in the U.S., but matching efficiency improved in Germany, helping to keep unemployment low …

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Trade, Technology and U.K. Wage Inequality

Haskel, Jonathan; Slaughter, Matthew J. - 2021

The U.K. skill premium fell from the 1950s to the late 1970s and then rose very sharply. This paper examines the contributions to these relative wage movements of international trade and technical change. We first measure trade as changes in product prices and technical change as TFP growth....

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Economic Insecurity and the Globalization of Production

Scheve, Kenneth; Slaughter, Matthew J. - 2021

A common claim in debates about globalization is that economic integration increases worker insecurity. Although this idea is central to both political and academic debates about international economic integration, the theoretical basis of the claim is often not clear. There is also no empirical...

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Does the Sector Bias of Skill-Biased Technical Change Explain Changing Wage Inequality?

Haskel, Jonathan; Slaughter, Matthew J. - 2022

This paper examines whether the sector bias of skill-biased technical change (sbtc) explains changing skill premia within countries in recent decades. First, using a two-factor, two-sector, two-country model we demonstrate that in many cases it is the sector bias of sbtc that determines sbtc's...

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Coercive Contract Enforcement : Law and the Labor Market in 19th Century Industrial Britain

Naidu, Suresh - 2011

British Master and Servant law made employee contract breach a criminal offense until 1875. We develop a contracting model generating equilibrium contract breach and prosecutions, then exploit exogenous changes in output prices to examine the effects of labor demand shocks on prosecutions....

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Employment, Wages, and Unionism in a Model of the Aggregate Labor Market in Britain

Pencavel, John H. - 2010

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...

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Wage and Employment Determinants Under Trade Unionism : The Internationaltypographical Union

Dertouzos, J.N; Pencavel, John H. - 2021

This paper represents the first empirical application of a model of trade union behavior that has been discussed in the 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...

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Public Sector Growth and Labor Market Flexibility : The United States vs. The United Kingdom

Blank, Rebecca M. - 2021

This paper investigates whether a larger public sector limits labor market adjustment, using data from the United States and the United Kingdom, two countries with quite different public/private employment trends. The results indicate that the two countries have a similar mix of occupations and...

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Mindestlöhne und Beschäftigung

George, Roman - In: WSI-Mitteilungen : Zeitschrift des Wirtschafts- und … 61 (2008) 9, pp. 479-485

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