investment boom of 1995-2000 drew many younger and less-educated workers into employment. Employment rates for these workers …

Standard models suggest that adverse labor demand shocks will lead to bigger employment losses if institutional factors … 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 …

This paper analyzes differences in the growth of minority and female employment between union and non …-union manufacturing plants in California during the late 1970's, In this sector, unionized plants do not exhibit anymore gross employment … 1970's that displaced low seniority workers. Black males actually enjoy faster growth of employment share in unionized …

We investigate the impact of union strength on changes in nonunion wages and employment. The prevailing model in this … in nonunion employment. In testing the threat model, we are also testing two alternatives, the crowding and complements … wage determination. Further evidence on the determinants of intra-industry variation in nonunion employment is consistent …