I dag krävs från olika håll att regelverket på arbetsmarknaden ska ändras. Spelreglerna sägs hämma arbetskraftens rörlighet, leda till en alltför stel lönebildning, motverka nyanställningar och ge upphov till orättvisor mellan dem som har arbete och dem som står utanför...

"Starting in the mid-19th Century, public officials, reformers, journalists, and other elites often referred to “the labor question” or “the labor problem”. The labor question was rooted in the system of wage labor that spread throughout much of Europe and its colonies and produced...

This paper estimates a series of shocks to hit the US economy during the Great Depression, using a New Keynesian model with unemployment and bargaining frictions. Shocks to long-run inflation expectations appear to account for much of the cyclical behavior of employment, while an increase in...