bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply … shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages … decline with the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. We find that wage flexibility is substantially higher in the UK …

's theoretical framework: (i) wages are higher in states with more generous unemployment benefits, (ii) the perceived probability of … pay and the local unemployment rate - in modern U.S. data. Consistent with recent evidence from more than 40 other … job-finding is lower in states with higher unemployment, and (iii) employees are less happy in states that have higher …

The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a … the appropriate distinction may not be between employment and unemployment, but rather between higher and lower levels of … affected by regional unemployment. However, insecure employed men and poor-prospect unemployed men are less negatively, or even …

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 …

, employer change, quits, training, wages, and job satisfaction). …

the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …

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 …

In this paper we show that panel estimates of tenure specific sensitivity to the business cycle of wages is subject to … serious pitfalls. Three canonical variates used in the literature - the minimum unemployment rate during a worker's time at … the firm (min u), the unemployment rate at the start of her tenure (Su) and the current unemployment rate interacted with …