Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

composition of the labor force, between-groups wage inequality and the level of unemployment. The main result is that a labor … labor force, there is higher unemployment among low-experience workers, they do not accumulate enough on-the-job human …

in countries with different labor market institutions. If labor market institutions raise the relative wage of unskilled …. Instead in the US, where wage-compressing institutions are weaker, firms invest more in high-skilled workers. We provide …

In this paper, we introduce two sources of unemployment in a two-factor general equilibrium model: search frictions and … fairness considerations. We find that a binding fair-wage constraint increases the unskilled unemployment rate and can at the … same time lead to a higher unemployment rate for skilled workers, as compared to an equilibrium where fairness …

. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii) the … and allow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for the US is consistent with an unemployment …