structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are the result of different investment decisions by firms for the jobs …

Standard models suggest that adverse labor demand shocks will lead to bigger employment losses if institutional factors … explains the contrast between the United States, where real wages fell over the 1980s and aggregate employment expanded … vigorously, and Europe, where real wages were (roughly) constant and employment was stagnant. We test this hypothesis by …

-paying firms. Changes in characteristics of workers or displacing firms explain little of the cyclicality, though non-employment …

International Adult Literacy Survey we find that employment of skilled to unskilled labour is unrelated to differences in skill … regulated labour and product markets in the US. Based on the Comparative German American Structural Database and the … premium but that changes in relative employment are related to changes in relative wages raising the possibility of some …

the unskilled. By contrast, in Europe it is undoubtedly the rise and persistence of unemployment. Technology has been … European unemployment. This paper seeks to provide a unified account of these major factor market developments. It models the … impact of technical change on relative wages and unemployment in a world in which one country has flexible and the other …

risk. Using Panel Study of Income Dynamics data linked to industry data on injuries and unemployment, we find:1) Nearly all … loss; 2) Similarly, nearly all the compensation for losses due to cyclical unemployment is compensation for increases in … duration, especially for increases in duration beyond the 26 weeks of unemployment that are usually compensated by unemployment …

Federal and state employment programs for low-skilled workers typically emphasize rapid placement of participants into … jobs and often place a large fraction of participants into temporary-help agency jobs. Using unique administrative data … higher quantiles. In net, we find that the widespread practice of placing disadvantaged workers into temporary-help jobs is …

unemployment rates for both groups. The paper provides some evidence that there has been a change in the composition of jobs in the …This paper offers a model where firms decide what types of jobs to create and then search for suitable workers. When … create a qualitative change in the composition of jobs, increasing the demand for skills, wage inequality, and the …