This paper examines the effects of alcohol consumption on employment and wages for males and females in Russia. Both … impact on employment and wages. Further, there is some evidence in favor of an inverse U-shaped relationship between alcohol …

This paper explores the short and long run effects of career interruptions on wages for young skilled workers in West … Germany. The analysis distinguishes four types of career interruptions: unemployment, parental leave for female workers …

relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a … stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …

signal of productivity, and duration of unemployment may be positively related to post-laid-off wages even among workers who … employer and may choose to remain unemployed rather than to accept a low-wage job. In this case, unemployment can serve as a … are not recalled. In contrast, because workers whose plant closed cannot be recalled, longer unemployment for them should …

Labor market frictions are not the only possible factor responsible for high unemployment. Credit market imperfections … European and US unemployment differ so much when labor markets have become more similar at the margin in Europe and the US. To …

distribution. The conventional method of analysis is regression of summary inequality indices on variables such as the unemployment …

selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …

on wages which can be seen as a lower bound for the effects on productivity. Based on panel data from the Swiss Labour … together, there are significant effects of work-related training on wages of roughly 2% for each training event. There is some …