In this paper Markus Knell studies the determinants of unemployment in a two-country- model, where real wages are the outcome of the strategic interaction between various institutional players (firms, unions, central banks). He shows that: (i) the results derived in the recent literature on this...

In this paper we provide new estimates of the impact of unions on nonunion wage setting. We allow the presence of unions to affect nonunion wages both through the typically discussed channel of nonunion firms emulating union wages in order to fend off the threat of unionisation and through a...

Unique longitudinal probabilistic expectations data from the Berea Panel Study, which cover both college and early post-college periods, are used to examine young adults’ beliefs about their future incomes. We introduce a new measure of the ex post accuracy of beliefs, and two new approaches...