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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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Lohn- und Arbeitsmarktentwicklung in den USA : einige Anmerkungen zu neueren Tendenzen

Gaß, Gerald - In: WSI-Mitteilungen : Zeitschrift des Wirtschafts- und … 47 (1994) 5, pp. 290-299

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2 Millionen neue Jobs in einem Jahr! : Die beschäftigungspolitische Bedeutung des tertiären Sektors in den USA im Vergleich zur Bundesrepublik

Schettkat, Ronald - In: WSI-Mitteilungen : Zeitschrift des Wirtschafts- und … 47 (1994) 6, pp. 363-370

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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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Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor : The United States in Historical Perspective

Katz, Lawrence F. - 2013

This paper examines shifts over time in the relative demand for skilled labor in the United States. Although de-skilling in the conventional sense did occur overall in nineteenth century manufacturing, a more nuanced picture is that occupations "hollowed out": the share of "middle-skill" jobs -...

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Foreign-Affiliate Activity and U.S. Skill Upgrading

Blonigen, Bruce A.; Slaughter, Matthew J. - 2021

There has been little analysis of the impact of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) on U.S. wage inequality, even though the presence of foreign-owned affiliates in the United States has arguably grown more rapidly in significance for the U.S. economy than trade flows. Using data across U.S....

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Unemployment, Unsatisfied Demand for Labor, and Compensation Growth in the United States, 1956-1980

Medoff, James L.; Abraham, Katharine G. - 2021

This paper presents two key facts which call into question the value of unemployment rates as barometers of labor market tightness. First, while both unemployment rates and unsatisfied labor demand proxies perform reasonably well on their own in compensation growth equations, in models which...

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USA in Not

Trautwein-Kalms, Gudrun (contributor) - In: WSI-Mitteilungen : Zeitschrift des Wirtschafts- und … 39 (1986) 6, pp. 393-456

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Future Skill Shortages in the U.S. Economy?

Neumark, David - 2011

The impending retirement of the baby boom cohort represents the first time in the history of the United States that such a large and well-educated group of workers will exit the labor force. This could imply skill shortages in the U.S. economy. We develop near-term labor force projections of the...

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