the regional level of institutional barriers to the firm-level adjustment of wages to labor productivity. …

recidivists suggests that these results are driven by a drop in the reservation wages of "reformed" criminals. This reading is …

correlated with working time accounts. No significant effects of working time accounts can be detected on wages and on operating …

This paper assesses the relationship between public and private wages in the EU, as measured by general government and …

boom and bust. The gradient with wages, however, is much more marked during the bust and remains significantly so even …

In this paper, we study how foreign ownership of Swedish companies affects employment and wages. To study these effects …, we specify a model based on the assumption that the Swedish labour market can be described as one where trade unions and … employers bargain over employment and wages. Our hypothesis is that bargaining power is affected by institutional settings and …

effort if a risk of forfeiture of pension claims is present. Exploiting the German non-forfeiture clause for employer … forfeiture exert a positive effect on work engagement. Since occupational pension claims are selectively distributed across …

unnecessary evil. Restructuring unemployment and pension benefits will help to increase participation and reverse the decline of …: almost every European economy has more stringent employment protection and more generous social benefits than peers in North … generous social benefits that simultaneously discourage young people from searching seriously for work and encourage older …