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 …

, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …

Using a large field experiment, we show that racial composition of employer neighborhoods predicts employment …

In May 1981, President François Mitterrand regularized the status of undocumented immigrant workers in France. The … can move the market closer to the efficient competitive equilibrium and potentially increase employment and wages for both … program particularly increased employment and wages for low-skill native and immigrant men, and raised French GDP by over 1 …

Since monetary union with western Germany on 1 July 1990, eastern female monthly wages have risen by 10 percentage … points relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the … most important determinant of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than half of the …

anticipate considerably lower earnings in subsequent years, even under the assumption of continuous employment after leaving …