one, may not be a justification for a positive relationship between product market competition and unionized wage …, irrespective of the union density, bargaining power of the union and the union’s preference for wage and employment. Copyright …

competition makes firms use the adjustment strategies more intensively, and it encourages price flexibility. For all shocks, the … costs more likely to be reduced are non-labor costs, followed by temporary employment. A high degree of competition and a … high labor share make the pass-through of shocks to employment stronger. On the other hand, collective wage agreements …

neighbours are subject to similar environmental conditions, but the confounding influence of competition was also observed over …

unemployment wages. A high wage replacement rate in the low wage sector seems to considerably elongate the duration of unemployment …

This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

This paper examines changes in the wage structure in urban India during the past two decades (1983-2004) across the … entire wage distribution using the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition approach. Real wages increased throughout the wage … distribution during 1983-1993; however, it increased only in the upper half of the wage distribution during 1993-2004. Quantile …