We use detailed information about wages, education and occupations to shed light on the evolution of the U.S. financial … also shows that wages in finance were excessively high around 1930 and from the mid 1990s until 2006. For the recent period …

analysis indicates how the changes can segment the labour market into an expanding sector of restructured firms where wages are … rising, a contracting sector of traditional firms where wages are relatively stagnant, and an expanding pool of the …; the widening dispersion of wages within occupational, educational, and job tenure groups in the United Kingdom and the …

discrimination. Using data collected in the 1980 Women and Employment Survey, we find that women's wages would be between 20 and 25 …

Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new …

The paper provides SVAR estimates for four open economies: the UK, Canada, Sweden and Denmark, making explicit a … another: monetary union appears easy to recommend for Sweden and Denmark, much less so for Canada and the UK. …

Sweden is home to a remarkably large number of prosperous multinationals. We argue that this is partly the result of … regulations and controls have facilitated investment abroad by Swedish firms, while impeding foreign direct investment in Sweden … investment abroad, but opposed foreign investment in Sweden. This paper outlines the development of Swedish foreign investment …

-10 percent. Since then both skill premia have increased by around 10 percentage points in 2002. Theories that equalize wages with … private sector employment. Our analysis suggests that the dramatic decline of the skill premium in Sweden is the result of an …