Using household level data for France from 1990 to 2000, we estimate a relationship between wages and unemployment … most likely because of a structural change in workers'' behavior, i.e. ""wage moderation"". The outward shift was … particularly large between 1996 and 2000 and undoubtedly contributed strongly to the exceptional employment performance during that …

estimate employment for three skill categories of blue collar workers. Employment elasticities are uniformly higher in the east …, and for unskilled labor. The former result contradicts union claims that wages had little relevance for east German job …

and wage levels. This paper estimates the impact of changes in both import and export prices on employment and wages in …This paper investigates the sensitivity of sectoral employment and wages in the United States to changes in foreign … most sectors, changes in trade prices do not have significant effects on employment and wages, although they generally have …

explains half of the wage gap. Immigrants are also initially less likely to participate in the labor market and more likely to … be unemployed. While participation fully converges after 20 years, immigrants always remain more likely to be unemployed …

benefits of wage moderation. By isolating structural from cyclical factors in a panel of industrial countries, I show that … structurally slower real wage growth, that is, ""wage moderation,"" does raise output growth and lower unemployment rates. However …Euro-area real wages have decelerated sharply in the last 20 years, but this has not yet translated into visibly lower …

I use three decades of county-level data to estimate the effects of federal unemployment benefit extensions on economic … activity. To overcome the reverse causality coming from the fact that benefit extensions are a function of state unemployment … as an instrument to estimate local fiscal multipliers of unemployment benefit transfers. I find (i) that the overall …

Raising South Africa's low employment rate to levels seen in emerging market or advanced economy peers could raise GDP … find much scope for improving the design of key labor market institutions-including collective bargaining and employment …

This paper provides the first systematic study of how minimum wage policies in China affect firm employment over the … wage on employment which depends on the firm's wage level. Specifically, the minimum wage has a greater negative impact on … employment in low-wage firms than in high-wage firms. Our results are robust for different treatment groups, sample attrition …

.S. manufacturing industry, and it finds evidence of asymmetry. Tight policy increases job destruction and reduces net employment …

This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the … firm-level dataset to examine the impact of import competition on employment, wages, and firm performance, as well as the … higher average wages; thus any relatively slower employment growth in this group of firms could lead to lower inequality …