The standard bargaining model predicts that falling international price competitiveness should exert downward pressure on wages, in addition to the effect of current unemployment. Cointegration results with aggregate British and German data confirm the model for the U.K., but fail to reveal an...

Disaggregated data from 30 two-digit manufacturing industies in the Eastern and Western parts of unified Germany are used to estimate employment from three skill categories of blue collar workers. Employment elasticities are uniformly higher in the East, and for unskilled labour. The former...

Capital-skill complementarity is tested for two different definitions of skill, using data from 32 West German manufacturing industries from 1975-1990. Using the Kmenta approximation for the CES function provides strong support for complementarity between white collar workers and capital. On the...

Non-Separable capital adjustment costs imply that investment directly affects the demand for labour and therefore justify not only the lagged dependent variable but also the presence of investment expenditures or Tobin's valuation ratio Q in labour demand estimation. On this basis we estimate a...

Utilizing panel data for 19 OECD countries we find support for the hypothesis that a greater degree of product variety relative to the US helps to explain relative per capita GDP levels. The empirical work relies upon some direct measures of product variety calculated from 6-digit OECD export...

This paper first replicates Basu and Fernald's (1995) US results to find no externalities from aggregate West German manufacturing to gross industry output changes and approximately constant internal returns to scale. However, when we distinguish between upswings and downturns in aggregate...