in labor markets by compelling workers and firms to reveal normally hidden credentials, such as criminal background … clearinghouses, resolve coordination and collective action failures in markets by tightly controlling -- even monopolizing -- the …; workers cannot, for example, elect to suppress their criminal records and firms cannot opt out of collective bargaining. I …

of which contribute to the Danish labor markets behaving quite differently from those in many other European countries … important aspect of the functioning and flexibility of the labor markets in Denmark: the high level of worker mobility. We show … the trend towards a more decentralized wage determination. The shift towards decentralized wage bargaining has coincided …

trading and bargaining …

tractable relation for wage dynamics that is a natural generalization of the period-by-period Nash bargaining outcome in the … conventional formulation. An interesting side-product is the emergence of spillover effects of average wages on the bargaining …

Social norms have the potential to alter the functioning of economic markets. We test whether norms shape the aggregate … labor supply curve by leading decentralized individuals to maintain wage floors in their local labor markets. We partner … with existing employers who create new jobs for workers in informal spot labor markets. Unemployed workers would like to …