shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … largest for lower-skilled individuals. We show that domestic manufacturing employment declined much more in countries that saw …

This paper analyzes the net effects of technology and import competition on employment, wages and wage inequality in … the Canadian manufacturing sector over the 1970-1990 period by estimating reduced form employment and wage equations. The …-hours worked, the level of employment and the hourly labor compensation by industry are examined. The major findings for the study …

transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude … but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …

We analyze the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Contrary to … negative effect in Russia, and they provide some evidence of positive foreign effects on both wages and employment in all four … countries. The negligible employment impact of domestic privatization results from effects on efficiency and scale that are …

wages have stagnated. Though real wages in the factories have declined employment therein has not increased. Interestingly …, both wages and employment have increased in the mid-sized units. The relationship is therefore neither unidirectional nor … sector has seen the most sweeping changes. It is now being suggested that the current jobless growth is due to high wages …

There is a large body of literature on the relationship between innovations and employment at the firm level, with most … paper tries to fill in this gap by looking at three dimensions of the relationship between innovations and employment in … Poland: innovations and job creation, innovations and the skill structure of employment innovations, and wage formation. The …

This paper studies how a special wage increase for assistant nurses in Sweden affected income and employment. Workers … in the public sector receive wages based on negotiations between unions and employers. These agreements usually provide … similar employment and income levels before the agreement was reached. Assistant nurses see higher increases in labor income …

demands, as measured by hiring requirements and job tasks, on the wages and employment of newly hired workers. Skill demands … the relative wages and employment of race and gender groups … were generally associated with lower employment of blacks than whites, and with higher employment of women than men. Most …

We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to … impacts on both employment and wages in all four countries. The negligible consequences of domestic privatization for workers … job losses from privatization, and they never imply large negative effects on wages; only for domestic privatization in …