. It suggests that the pay and employment experience of low skilled Americans is a poor counterfactual for assessing how …

International Adult Literacy Survey we find that employment of skilled to unskilled labour is unrelated to differences in skill … premium but that changes in relative employment are related to changes in relative wages raising the possibility of some … substitution behavior. Still, the differing dispersion of wages is not a major contributor to differences in employment rates. The …

(employment) at proximate stores decrease by 4% (2.1%). Exits, especially of young and small stores, increase, and entry decreases …

amenable to empirical analysis. A characterization of the wage and employment-setting process in unionized markets is adopted … opportunities for substituting wages for employment in response to a change in the slope of the employer's labor demand function …. Larger union locals place greater emphasis on wages versus employment than smaller union locals …

greater flexibility in wages, these two countries also exhibit more stable employment behavior over the business cycle. In …

This paper studies the efficient agreements about the dependence of workers' earnings on employment, when the … employment level is controlled by firms. The firms ' superior information about profitability conditions is responsible for this … form of contract governance. Under plausible assumptions, such agreements will cause employment to diverge from efficiency …

literature for over thirty years. The wages and employment o typographers are examined to see whether they can be usefully … characterized as the outcome of a process by which the union maximizes an objective function containing wages and employment and is … wages and employment of these workers compared with our more general formulation …

In this paper we use indirect inference to estimate a joint model of earnings, employment, job changes, wage rates, and …