Barely a day goes by without some expert telling us how the continental European
economies are about to disintegrate unless their labor markets become more flexible …

After nearly a decade of relative quiet, the increases in the US minimum wage that began in
1990 have coincided with a renewed interest in its effects. Recent work suggests that a …

The received wisdom tells us that the rigidity and inflexibility of European job markets
relative to that in the United States is the reason why Europe has high unemployment. This …

Minimum wages exist in more than one hundred countries, both industrialized and
developing. The United States passed a federal minimum wage law in 1938 and has …

School-to-work patterns and issues are discussed for seven economies (France, Germany,
Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States). The …

Most labor economics textbooks pay little attention to actual labor markets, taking as
reference a perfectly competitive market in which losing a job is not a big deal. The …

Using harmonized data for the years 1995–2001 from the European Community Household
Panel, the authors analyze gender pay gaps by sector across the wage distribution in eleven …

El debate académico sobre la tipificación de grandes regímenes del bienestar ha
provocado una fértil producción de análisis y estudios de la (nueva) economía política y …

Free enterprise is off the leash and chasing new opportunities for profit making across the
globe. After a turbulent century of unprecedented social and technological change …

Using microdata for 22 countries over the 1985–94 period, we find that more compressed
male wage structures and lower female net supply are both associated with a lower gender …