relatively fast employment growth in the past decade. Employment growth was not sufficient to reduce unemployment because of … rapid population growth and increased labor force participation. This paper shows that Philippine employment growth and …

This paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between reservation wages of unemployed workers and … perspective on how reservation wages change over time and how they correlate with accepted wage offers for workers who move from … unemployment to employment. The findings shed light on the disincentive effects of the German tax and transfer system for the …

Using household level data for France from 1990 to 2000, we estimate a relationship between wages and unemployment … large between 1996 and 2000 and undoubtedly contributed strongly to the exceptional employment performance during that …

forces. The rigidity of relative wages, despite relative shifts in labor demand that favor skilled workers, has resulted in … sharp declines in employment rates for unskilled workers. The microeconomic evidence is shown to have important implications …

In flow models of the labor market, wages are determined by negotiations between workers and employers on the surplus …

institutional changes introduced by the 1988 Constitution lowered the sensitivity of real wages to changes in labor market slack and …

The paper looks at the dynamics of employment in South Africa and examines the factors that contributed to the job … productivity growth in most sectors, played an important role in suppressing employment creation. The paper also finds that while …