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 … unemployment. A competing view regards wage dispersion as the outcome of search frictions and the associated monopsony power of the …

impact on aggregate labor market performance and unemployment. In a two-sector labor market model with free mobility of labor … effective counter-cyclical instrument. Empirical tests for Greece confirm that the expansion of the public sector in the 1980s …

and productivity developments in Germany, the European Union's periphery countries Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain … past times of low productivity, price inflation and reductions in unemployment put significant upward pressure on wage …, aiming at aligning wage growth with labour productivity growth at the national levels. In this context, we analyse the wage …

We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model …

We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a taskassignment model …

institutional measures and wage inequality incorporates unemployment and working hours dynamics, discussing the problems of matching …