Se utiliza información de la Encuesta Nacional de Hogares (1984-2000), la Encuesta Continua de Hogares (2001-2006) y la Gran Encuesta Integrada de Hogares (2006-2009) para estimar la curva de salarios (Blanchflower y Oswald, 1994). Se encuentra que los salarios responden a la tasa de desempleo...

Of the recent economic developments in Switzerland, the increased unemployment level deserves special attention. In the 1990s Switzerland's long tradition of low (almost nonexistent) unemployment was broken. Although still below the levels experienced in most industrialized countries,...

In a path-breaking but largely overlooked study, published in a festchrift thirty years ago (1975), Herman Van der Wee provided a comparison of prices and real wages of building craftsmen in the regions of Antwerp and south-eastern England, from 1400 to 1700. To do so, he constructed a composite...

As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...

Se estima el componente de largo plazo de la tasa de desempleo en Colombia para los últimos veinte años. De acuerdo con los resultados, los principales determinantes del componente permanente de la tasa de desempleo son el salario real por hora, los costos laborales no salariales y la tasa de...

Se estima el componente de largo plazo de la tasa de desempleo en Colombia para los últimos veinte años. De acuerdo con los resultados, los principales determinantes del componente permanente de la tasa de desempleo son el salario real por hora, los costos laborales no salariales y la tasa de...

Este documento describe la evolución de la tasa de desempleo urbano en Colombia en el período 1984:1-2000:2. Incluye evidencia sobre algunas de las propiedades de las series de tiempo del mercado laboral tales como las tasas de desempleo, de ocupación y de participación. Se estiman las...

Unemployment is at a low and stable level in Denmark. This achievement is often attributed to the so-called flexicurity model combining flexible hiring and firing rules for employers with income security for employees. Whatever virtues this model may have, a low and stable unemployment rate is...

This paper provides both descriptive and empirical evidence about the main youth labour market problems in Spain. Using the experiences of other EU economies as a benchmark, we document the performance of Spain as regards a wide set of youth labour market dimensions. These include employment and...

While global attention has been focused on the plight of the child laborer internationally, legal scholars have paid less attention to the changing nature of the American child's workplace. This article first describes the current situation of the American child worker and briefly reviews the...