The labor share has been declining in the United States, and especially so in manufacturing. This paper investigates the role of capital accumulation and market power in explaining this decline. I first estimate the production function of 21 manufacturing sectors along time series and including...

This paper analyses the decline in unskilled employment in UK manufacturing.

Die sektorale Lohndifferenzierung im verarbeitenden Gewerbe hat in den berücksichtigten zentraleuropäischen Ländern in den letzten zehn Jahren zugenommen. Die in den betrachteten EU-Beitrittsländern geschaffenen Arbeitsplätze fallen in erster Linie in die Kategorie arbeitsintensive Branchen...

In order to test the idea that the deterioration of the Portuguese export shares in the period 1995-2004 was due to the unfavourable evolution of the unit labour costs (ULC), the import structure of Germany, Spain, France and the United Kingdom (representing about 70% of the Portuguese exports)...

The economic theory proposes two hypotheses for the relationship between wages and risk of job loss due to rm (or plant) closure. The rst hypothesis posits that workers at greater risk should be compensated by higher wages. This is known as the theory of compensating wage diferentials. The...

This study compares French and German manufacturing price levels in 2007 and investigates in both countries over the 1991-2010 period value added price growth rates in manufacturing and services. Using the ICOP methodology and the data from the Eurostat production surveys, we calculate...