The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study … is set in an economy with close to complete union coverage where real wages have grown continuously in all parts of the … estimated elasticity of wages. Wage adjustments are larger for employees with high unemployment risk and for new hires entering …

% to 73% in six years, and the decline for women was considerably larger. This employment fall is possibly the worst of any …, using the 1990-1996 survey years of the German Socio-Economic Panel. Individuals over fifty and women have much longer non …

underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers' beliefs in a representative survey in Germany …-wage firms, would not be viable at current wages. …

across regions and on the resulting location of industrial activity. In particular, it studies what happens when wages in … both regions are set by the unions of the ‘West’ – the region with a greater initial relative stock of human capital. We … show that in some circumstances, it is in the interest of the West’s unions to set a speed of wage convergence greater than …

unemployment: labour unions, supply shocks combined with real wage rigidity, and automation and trade combined with real wage …

Italy. In particular, the existence of high wage floor -- either set through statutory minimum wages or by collective …

This paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between reservation wages of unemployed workers and … provides an interesting perspective on how reservation wages change over time and how they correlate with accepted wage offers …

model predicts a joint recovery of wages and commuting despite a static tradeoff between the two attributes. …

This paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between reservation wages of unemployed workers and …-Economic Panel) provides an interesting perspective on how reservation wages change over time and how they correlate with accepted …