Disaggregation of the labor market: The Balkanization of labor markets. Labor markets: their character and consequences. Effect of environment and administration on job evaluation.--The limits of union power over wages: Labor's income share and the labor movement. The impacts of unions on the...

Policymakers in many OECD countries are increasingly concerned about high and rising inequality. Much of the evidence (as far back as Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations) points to the importance of skills in tackling wage inequality. Yet a recent strand of the research argues that (cognitive)...

This paper reviews the dramatic and widely noted developments in the German labor market in the past decade and surveys the most plausible reasons for these changes. Alternative hypotheses are compared and contrasted. I argue that the labor market reforms associated with the Agenda 2010 – the...