In January 2015, qualified employers must provide health care coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 or face a fine. As employers actively attempt to minimize the costs that they will incur, the possibility emerges that employers will retaliate against or harass...

Computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling has provided a number of important insights about the interplay between environmental tax policy and the pre-existing tax system. In this paper, we emphasize that a labor market policy of recycling tax revenues from an environmental tax to lower...

Based on a cash-in-advance approach, this paper investigates theoretically the determinants of money holdings of firms under the conditions of a highly regulated labor market and analyses empirically the demand for money of German businesses during the period 1960-1998. As a result of our...

This paper decomposes wage bill changes at the firm level into components due to wage changes, and components due to net flows of employment. The analysis relies on an administrative employer-employee dataset of individual annual earnings matched with firms' annual accounts for Belgium over the...

This paper studies the role of wage moderation and labour and product market regulation for employment creation. To this end, labour demand estimates are presented for the five largest euro area countries at the aggregate level and for three macro sectors: manufacturing, construction and...

Firms have multiple options at the time of adjusting their wage bills. However, previous literature has mainly focused on base wages. We broaden the analysis beyond downward rigidity in base wages by investigating the use of other margins of labour cost adjustment at the firm level. Using data...

This paper investigates the wage and price setting behaviour of Lithuanian firms on the basis of an ad hoc survey “On Price and Wage Setting” undertaken by the Bank of Lithuania. The paper provides survey evidence on the frequency of wage and price changes. The frequency of wage changes...

Die Arbeitskosten des westdeutschen Verarbeitenden Gewerbes beliefen sich im Jahr 2011 auf 37,57 Euro je Arbeitnehmerstunde. Damit lag Westdeutschland an sechster Stelle der IW-Arbeitskostenrangliste. Gegenüber dem Durchschnitt der etablierten Industrieländer hat die westdeutsche Industrie um...

Die Arbeitskosten des westdeutschen Verarbeitenden Gewerbes beliefen sich im Jahr 2012 auf 38,88 Euro je Arbeitnehmerstunde. Damit liegt Westdeutschland an fünfter Stelle des 44 Länder umfassenden IW-Arbeitskostenvergleichs und hat gegenüber dem Durchschnitt der fortgeschrittenen...

Die Arbeitskosten des westdeutschen Verarbeitenden Gewerbes beliefen sich im Jahr 2013 auf 38,77 Euro je Arbeitnehmerstunde. Damit liegt Westdeutschland an sechster Stelle des 44 Länder umfassenden IW-Arbeitskostenvergleichs und hat gegenüber dem Durchschnitt der fortgeschrittenen...