Cyclical sensitivity in employment, wages, and hours worked are explored with reference to three industries and eleven … to be inadequate because of marked rigidities in the patterns of short-run adjustment. Money wages are very stable, being … periodicities in the patterns of residuals derived from trend-line estimates of money wages confirm a supposition that urban …

heterogeneity is taken into account, it is only long histories of unemployment which have a negative effect on hourly wages. On the … hourly wages. These findings are consistent with the fact that Australia has binding minimum wages which limit the extent to … which hourly wages can be reduced and so the impact of unemployment on earnings occurs through shorter working hours …

the comovements of employment, wages, and inflation with output, paying particular attention to the lead-lag relation …

Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …

effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …