Using a large longitudinal data set, we study the effects of increased trade on earnings and mobility in the Swedish …

Using a large longitudinal data set, we study the effects of increased trade on earnings and mobility in the Swedish …

severe and prolonged macroeconomic shock affects wage rigidity and unemployment. Our second survey was conducted in 1998 …, when the unemployment rate was much higher, and the inflation rate much lower, than when we conducted the first survey in … 1991. We find no evidence that the increase in unemployment has softened the mechanisms generating wage rigidity. On the …