unemployment. This link becomes more evident when wage inflation is disaggregated at sectoral and occupational levels. Using … exogenous variations in local market unemployment as the main identification strategy, a negative correlation between vacancy …-level wage and unemployment is also established. The correlation magnitude, however, is different across regions and skill …

long as wages serve as a utility equalizing device. Using a partial measure of overall job satisfaction - satisfaction with …

Measured by changes in real wages, earnings inequality and unemployment, the economic position of lower skilled workers …-skilled workers, caused mainly by computerization and related forms of advanced technology, explain both the declining wages of low … skilled workers in the "flexible" labor market of the United States and high and rising unemployment in "rigid" European labor …

whether the historical relationship between wages and unemployment has weakened and whether composition effects moderated wage … growth. The results suggest a negative answer to both questions. Wages in the EU have not stopped reacting to unemployment … unemployment. There are only a few Member States with a significant 'shortfall' in wage growth, including both low and high-unemployment …

. They also suggest that screening and monitoring costs imply a lower sensitivity of wages to ability in larger …

public sector can be an important determinant of private employment and unemployment. I look at the case of geographically … homogeneous wages across regions with different private sector productivity, and show that public employment generates a crowding … productivity unbalance across regions, is responsible for up to 40% of the unemployment gap between the North and South. Policy …

In countries where wages are primarily set by collective bargaining, the effects on unemployment of changes in the … relations. In this paper, we examine the role this quality of labor relations has played in the evolution of unemployment across … relations have experienced higher unemployment. This conclusion remains even after controlling for labor institutions …

This article analyses wage flexibility as a factor in the unemployment rate across 12 Euro Area countries. We use … also identify countries with high unemployment that is not a consequence of a lack of wage flexibility …