of employment across countries and thus a change in the trade-off between wages and employment faced by wage setters …. While the effects of product market integration on the trade-off between wages and employment in general is ambiguous, it is … through trade. Unambiguously, real wages and employment and welfare improve upon reductions in trade frictions, and therefore …

. Wages, employment and welfare increase as a result of further product market integration. It is interesting to note that the …

the loses to the low paid. Product market integration may thus lead to a more inequal distribution of wages and employment …, even though there are aggregate gains in terms of higher real incomes and employment. …

formation and employment creation through many channels including product market rents and the possibility that jobs may be …

In this paper we study how foreign ownership of Swedish companies affect employment and wage setting. To study the … market where trade unions and employers bargain over both wage and employment. Our hypothesis is that the bargaining power is … effect on employment, whereas the effect on wages is significantly positive. …

directions, i.e. a strengthening of the rights and protection of workers at the same time as the flexibilization of employment …

We evaluate the elasticity of firms' employment and real average labour compensation to totalfactor productivity (TFP …