Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I Social Institutions and Labor Market Policies -- Chapter 2 Trade Union and Union Wage Premium -- Chapter 3 Minimum Wage System and Wage Distributions -- Chapter 4 Labor Contract Policy, Employment Security and Job Satisfaction -- Chapter 5 High Education...

We propose a novel framework that integrates the "task approach" for a more precise production modeling into the search-and-matching model with low- and high-skilled workers, and wage setting by labor unions. We establish the relationship between task reallocation and changes in wage pressure,...

Over the past 50 years, the U.S. and several European labor markets have undergone two most incisive developments: job market polarization and deunionization. In this paper, we argue that routine-biased technical change is not only the driving force behind polarization, as prevalently assumed,...