called the Triad: The United States, the EU and Japan. We focus on measuring possible asymmetries in market access between …

indices for Japan and Europe. If anything, real wages in Europe and Japan were too flexible rather than too rigid, in the …This paper studies the dynamic behaviour of changes in productivity, wages, and prices. Results are based on a new data …. Results are presented for the United States, Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies …

while lower-ranking executives see their wages fall. Third, higher competition is associated with a higher probability of …

dispersion of wages increase with competition using a large panel of United Kingdom workers with complete work histories. I …

unionized workforce. We develop a simple efficiency wage model, with a tradeoff between higher wages for workers and more … variety of data sets, we examine the implications of the model for the relationship between the employment and wages of … unionization in an industry and region and a higher union wage differential are associated with fewer managers. (2) Managers' wages …

analysis indicates how the changes can segment the labour market into an expanding sector of restructured firms where wages are … rising, a contracting sector of traditional firms where wages are relatively stagnant, and an expanding pool of the …; the widening dispersion of wages within occupational, educational, and job tenure groups in the United Kingdom and the …

-state equilibria in which productivity grows at the same rate as wages, the real interest rate is below the laissez-faire level, and so …