In this study, we examine how the market concentration in the insurance industry impacts employment and wages. We use … industry. Additionally, we find that market concentration is associated with a lower share of wages. However, we do not find …

declining health insurance coverage. In this paper we examine the long term effects of the only employer health insurance … Hawaii and other states increased, as did real health insurance costs, implying a rising burden of the mandate on Hawaii … voluntary market (primarily those with lower skills). We also find that relative wages fell in Hawaii over time, but the …

Request increase in miners' wages. - No attention, up to the present, has been paid by mine managers of big companies …

wages, it is reported at Wallace today, and it is possible this is only the first of the companies of the Coeur d …'Alenes which will cut wages as a result of the reduction in the price of metals, which has reduced the earnings of the companies … not find it necessary to cut wages. …

wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on … employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small …

This paper uses individual data on employment and wages to shed light on the UK's productivity puzzle. It finds that … workforce composition cannot explain the reduction in wages and hence productivity that we observe; instead, real wages have … lower capital-labour ratio. We cannot tell whether productivity is driving wages or vice versa, but understanding why wages …