voluntary market (primarily those with lower skills). We also find that relative wages fell in Hawaii over time, but the …. We find no evidence suggesting that the law reduced employment probabilities. …

pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, intensify job search, and raise employment. In … the present paper the wage and employment consequences of UISAs are investigated in a model of collective wage … determination. In the basic set-up, UISAs induce a trade union to lower wages. This effect can also arise if (1) balanced …

for job-related reasons. There is, however, no evidence that moving across regions increases the probability of employment … for males and females; in fact, some female movers experience a long-run employment penalty. …

transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude … but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …

In Germany, the employment response to the post-2007 crisis has been muted compared to other industrialized countries …. Despite a large drop in output, employment has hardly changed. In this paper, we analyze the determinants of German firms … of works councils. Second, on the basis of these estimates, we use the difference between predicted and actual employment …

relative labor-demand equations. The results demonstrate the existence of substitution of employment across times of the day …

small firms. Based on data from the IAB Establishment Panel we find no clear-cut evidence that employment in establishments …

This paper examines the pattern of employment adjustment in Portugal. First, the issue is addressed using a long time … series of aggregate data. Although the employment data show persistence, there is nonetheless a fairly rapid rate of … employment adjustment. Second, a much shorter time series of firm data is used to check the persistence detected at aggregate …

an employment boom in the construction sector, in others the share of employment in this sector did not significantly … explains many of the international differences in the response of sectoral reallocation of employment to house prices …. Countries with more building possibilities (Spain, Sweden and the US) have a high sectoral reallocation of employment, and …

and predict the effects of output shocks at a disaggregated level. The predicted employment effects are then transposed to …