Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain and rising continental European unemployment have led to a popular view …

gains in higher returns on capital. Growth of qualified employment was not the result of generalized technological advances …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are …

with heterogeneous firms, endogenous determination of informal wage and politically dictated enforcement strategies. Firms … which operate both in the formal and informal sectors do very little to increase employment when faced with the opportunity … aggregate employment effects, particularly when workers are productively homogeneous. For firms operating exclusively in the …

wage rigidity in Germany. Using three data sets for Germany, two for Britain and one for the United States, I simulate the … change in relative wage rigidity (wage compression) in all three countries during the early and mid 1990s, this being the … wage compression (relative wage rigidity), whereas Britain and the US experienced wage decompression. This evidence is …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain and rising continental European unemployment have led to a popular view …, combined with flexible wages in the Anglo-Saxon countries, but wage rigidities in continental Europe ('Krugman hypothesis …

The impact of a Temporary Help Agency (THA) job placement on an employee’s future employment status and labor market … effects of temporary agency employment on future employment outcomes. Compared to directhire temps, women’s earnings increase … two years after THA employment, while men’s do not. Four years after THA employment, women continue to benefit from THA …

There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary … wages. However, in some countries where labor markets are characterized by employment growth, skill shortages and a good …, we examine the efficacy of vocational education in raising the wage levels of four such groups: recent immigrants, Jews …

. These studies have typically estimated the return to education in terms of changes in wages rather than employment …, effectively ignoring the fact that trade liberalization affects not only wages but also employment opportunities. In this paper we … trade liberalization on the return to education taking into account both changes in wages and employment. The results show …