impact of the regime of collective bargaining on wages in the manufacturing sector of three countries that are characterized … by a multi-level system of bargaining: Belgium, Denmark and Spain. Our findings show that, compared to multi …-employer bargaining, single-employer bargaining has a positive effect both on wage levels and on wage dispersion in Belgium and in Denmark …

entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second …

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are … quit decisions. This approach obviates the need for a matching function. On this theoretical basis, we argue that the … matching function is vulnerable to the Lucas critique. Our calibrated model for the U.S. economy can account for important …

pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, intensify job search, and raise employment. In … the present paper the wage and employment consequences of UISAs are investigated in a model of collective wage … determination. In the basic set-up, UISAs induce a trade union to lower wages. This effect can also arise if (1) balanced …

employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, distinguishing between dependent and independent workers. For each country, we use … formal sector. Yet the dual structure is not balanced in the same way in all three countries. Most of the self-employment …

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are … quit decisions. This approach obviates the need for a matching function. On this theoretical basis, we argue that the … matching function is vulnerable to the Lucas critique. Our calibrated model for the U.S. economy can account for important …

than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as … satisfied than are employees, one consistent interpretation of the above is that the barriers to self-employment have grown in …

Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we show both theoretically and empirically that positive assortative matching …

There is an apparent inconsistency in the existing literature on graduate employment in the UK. While analyses of rates … supply of graduates, the literature on over-education suggests that many graduates are unable to find employment in graduate … that the employment of graduates in non-graduate jobs has declined over time. Hence, there is no evidence of an over …

labor market states. In steady-state, we hence have a theory of equilibrium unemployment determined by both matching … of large flows between employment, unemployment and inactivity. Secondly, it shows that unemployment and aggregate wages … when they lose a job. Thirdly, unemployment income has little effects on employment, since it attracts people into the …