reexamine the effects of trade unions both on relative wages and on relative man hours worked.Our estimates of the relative wage …

We use a panel of survey responses linked to administrative data in Germany to measure the depreciation of skills while … workers are unemployed. Both the reemployment hazard rate and reemployment earnings steadily fall with unemployment duration … cognitive and noncognitive skills while workers remain unemployed. We find the same pattern in a panel of American workers. The …

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 …

of STEM worker growth on the wages and employment of college and non-college educated native workers in 219 U.S. cities … workers in a city were associated with significant increases in wages paid to college educated natives. Wage increases for non …-college educated natives are smaller but still significant. We do not find significant effects on employment. We also find that STEM …

Using two decades of annual data, we explore the links between real exchange rates and employment, wages and overtime …, especially for industries characterized by low price-over-cost markup ratios, and in overtime wages and overtime employment. The … not have large effects on numbers of jobs or on hours worked. More substantial effects are picked up in industry wages …

which changes in the industrial wage structure may have for employment. With regard to the flexibility of wages across … impact of a flexible industry wage structure on employment, we evaluate the circumstances under which flexible wages among … industries may be employment enhancing, and the set of circumstances under which flexible wages are likely to be employment …

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 …

-saving technology to affect worker productivity both directly and indirectly, we show that the impact on wage earnings and employment … affected by AI. Overall, we find muted effects of AI on employment due to offsetting effects: highly-exposed occupations … increases overall employment across all occupations …