examine whether, and if so how, pension funds influence market discipline in Argentina in the period 1998-2001. We find …

This paper examines the regional distribution of public employment in Italy and documents two sets of facts. The first … is the use of public employment as a subsidy from the North to the less wealthy South. We calculate that about half of … the wage bill in the South of Italy can be identified as a subsidy, with both the size of public employment and wage …

reinforced and complemented at the micro-economic level. Lower regional unemployment puts an upward pressure on wages of … individuals, although this effect has become weaker since 2008. But there is downward pressure on wages for individuals with …

-15 Current Population Survey, I find that the drawn-out cyclical labor market repair-likely owing to low entry wages of new … workers-slowed down real wage growth. There are, however, also signs of structural changes in the labor market affecting wages …