employment rates, a poorer performance in terms of wage growth for less skilled workers, a larger increase in the service sector … comparative study of observed developments in the US, UK and Germany since the mid-seventies, complemented by an examination of … broad wage and employment changes for 18 OECD countries over the same period …

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains … did not change substantially in Germany, increased and remained at relatively high levels in the United States, and …

functions as well as a method of simulated moments estimation of a panel data model of earnings dynamics. Five of the algorithms …

greater flexibility in wages, these two countries also exhibit more stable employment behavior over the business cycle. In …This paper argues that rigid wages cannot provide the underpinnings of a universally valid theory of the business cycle …, simply because wages are not universally rigid. Several different statistical techniques suggest that wage rates in the U …

evolution over time of the employment rates of women and of the young, and of hours worked in OECD countries. Beyond controlling … do all this we find that culture still matters for women employment rates and for hours worked. However, policies and … appear to be important in explaining the employment rate of the young. In the case of women employment rates, the policy …

-reported administrative data, we document substantial discrepancies in basic measures of employment status that persist even after controlling …

global century. It then assesses the effects of immigration on wages and employment with and without international capital …

explains the contrast between the United States, where real wages fell over the 1980s and aggregate employment expanded … vigorously, and Europe, where real wages were (roughly) constant and employment was stagnant. We test this hypothesis by … comparing changes in wages and employment rates over the 1980s for different age and education groups in the United States …