The chapter discusses the role played by labor market institutions in shaping the dynamics
of wages, employment, and unemployment across European countries and the United …

Das Buch vermittelt einen Überblick über die vielfältigen mikroökonomischen Ansätze
(Humankapitaltheorie, Suchtheorie, Gewerkschaftstheorien, Effizienzlohntheorien, Insider …

We find that returns to occupational tenure are substantial. Everything else being constant, 5
years of occupational tenure are associated with an increase in wages of 12%–20 …

The debate on the resurgence of income inequality in some advanced industrial societies
has often focused on the impact of an increasingly integrated world economy, typified by …

Given the increased openness of countries to international trade and financial flows, the
general public and the scholarly literature have grown skeptical about the capacity of policy …

JNTEREST IN THE distribution of earnings and the distribution of household income was
largely a parochial backwater of economic research in the United States until the early …

Over the past few years, a new'geographical'economics has emerged, focused on the
spatial agglomeration of industry and the long-run convergence of regional incomes …

Americans average 25.1 working hours per person of working age per week, but the
Germans average 18.6 hours. The average American works 46.2 weeks per year, while the …

Employment protection systems are widely believed to generate distortions in firms' hiring
and firing decisions. However, much less is known about the impact of these regulations on …

We review some lessons from the Spanish experience of using temporary employment
contracts for regular jobs since 1984. The focus is on the role of fixed‐term contracts with low …