The purpose of this study is to investigate if the wage setting in certain sectors of the Swedish economy influences … the wage setting in other sectors. The theoretical background is the Scandinavian model of inflation, which states that … the wage setting in the sectors exposed to international competition should influence the wage setting in the sheltered …

mobility. In a simple model with symmetric sectors, it is shown that introducing labor mobility reduces the wage level, and … thereby also unemployment. It is also shown that an increased benefit level has an ambiguous effect on the wage level … unemployment costs borne by the own sector reduces the wage level is shown to hold when labor is mobile as well. Another result is …

wage risks and shows the risk of old-age poverty in Germany. After a short introduction, the effects of income and …

sector s output rise as competition between private firms for the best motivated workers leads to higher wage cost than under …

for low wage earnings, financed by a carbon tax, could yield a double dividend, the reduction of unemployment and the … income taxes, given average rates, could affect wage pressure and unemployment. The empirical evidence to date, however, does … by unions. When a union contemplates the possibility of a wage hike, it has to consider that say for a 1% increase in the …

endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favours wage convergence, boosts competition, and forces the least efficient firms … to leave the market, thereby affecting aggregate productivity. Since wage and productivity responses are endogenous, our …, relative and absolute wage effects, and a selection effect. Using the estimated parameter values, we then quantify the impact …

in their wage and in the rental price of their housing. Such finding is economically significant and robust to omitted … the joint results from the wage and rent regressions are consistent with a dominant production amenity effect of cultural …

returns to schooling associated with levels of educational attainment for wage and self-employed workers. The estimates for …