share of long-term unemployment. The rise in unemployment and its persistently high level have been blamed, both in Italy … Italy. In particular, the existence of high wage floor -- either set through statutory minimum wages or by collective … of unemployment. An additional dimension of "segmentation" also characterises the Italian labour market, notably the 30 …

bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply … shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages … decline with the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. We find that wage flexibility is substantially higher in the UK …

, employer change, quits, training, wages, and job satisfaction). …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ?Solovian zone? where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …

determinant of unemployment, it seems reasonable to expect that long-discovered systemic differences in unemployment across groups …

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 … with comparable attributes. In the conventional neoclassical point of view, wages are determined by the marginal product of …

increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …

stabilised since then. The first part of the paper aims to describe the regional differentiation in wages and unemployment on the … coefficient of the unemployment elasticity of wages equals 0.08, which can be considered as evidence of the existence of the wage … descriptive method basis. The other part of the study attempts to explain the differences in wages by an econometric model. We …

relative wage of the skilled. Increasing unemployment results only for a restrictive assumption about labor market rigidities. …