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 …

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 …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain and rising continental European unemployment have led to a popular view …

This paper considers the issue of unemployment one of the most pressing issues facing the UK and other governments, as … unemployment among the young and other disadvantaged groups, is typical of past experience. The paper reviews past literature on … the causes of unemployment, arguing that the origin of the present difficulties lies with a collapse in demand rather than …

We analyze the impact of product market competition on unemployment and wages, and how this depends on labour market … institutions. We use differential changes in regulations across OECD countries over the 1980s and 1990s to identify the effects of … competition. We find that increased product market competition reduces unemployment, and that it does so more in countries with …

provoked if a single country reduces the generosity of the unemployment compensation system or weakens labor union power. For … degree of competition in the goods market and the institutional setup of the unemployment compensation system. Furthermore …

worker's productivity is independent of his type. We show that equilibrium unemployment arises in the wage-setting game under …