the share of hospital labour costs in the total economy on hospital production, wages and technical change. From the raw … data, we observe a modest growth in hospital production over the whole research period. Strikingly, hospital wages … underwent explosive growth compared to wages in other sectors of the economy in the same timeframe, seemingly disproving the …

shocks to unemployment, but not after small changes. The result poses a challenge to theory, since most existing hysteresis …

I analyze the matching process in the Spanish labor market from 1994-2005. I use monthly registered unemployment data … queuing model, which is the most relevant description of the labor market matching process in Spain, according to the …

wages, but some studies using Norwegian micro data have estimated a negative effect of higher immigration for some type of … workers. In this paper, to capture that the wage setting is highly coordinated in Norway, we model a system of native wages … impact on wages has been in the private service industries. Immigration is found to be exogenous with respect to the …