production. With respect to labour market coordination, we discuss several wage-forming mechanisms and involuntary unemployment …. -- Computable general equilibrium model ; labour market ; labour supply ; labour demand ; microsimulation ; involuntary unemployment …

This paper combines two strains of the literature on the employment effects of deferred compensation. The first strain … separates seniority and job matching wage effects on the basis of individual data, but cannot look at employment consequences …. The second strain explains the employment structure on the basis of establishment data, but cannot properly calculate …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

the employment spell, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) from 1985 to 2002. Using a statistical … matching approach, we find that job exit rates are initially much higher if the employment spell began with an FTC. However …, exit rates fall below those of comparable spells spent entirely in permanent employment after a few years time. This …

It is commonplace in the debate on Germany’s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage … dispersion are related. This paper analyses the relationship between unemployment and residual wage dispersion for individuals … unemployment. A competing view regards wage dispersion as the outcome of search frictions and the associated monopsony power of the …