Greater job creation in the US than in Germany has often been related to greater wage dispersion coupled with less … International Adult Literacy Survey we find that employment of skilled to unskilled labour is unrelated to differences in skill … premium but that changes in relative employment are related to changes in relative wages raising the possibility of some …

adult per year, a drop of 4.9 percentage points in the employment-population ratio, and a rise in the shadow economy equal … to 3.8 percent of GDP. It also leads to 10 to 30 percent lower employment and value added shares in (a) retail trade and …

Standard models suggest that adverse labor demand shocks will lead to bigger employment losses if institutional factors … explains the contrast between the United States, where real wages fell over the 1980s and aggregate employment expanded … vigorously, and Europe, where real wages were (roughly) constant and employment was stagnant. We test this hypothesis by …

decline of profitability and employment in manufacturing, and simulated using annual data from 1950 to 1979. The wage …

greater flexibility in wages, these two countries also exhibit more stable employment behavior over the business cycle. In …

European countries exhibit significant differences in employment rates of adult males. Differences in labor … migrants to isolate the effect of culturally transmitted labor-leisure preferences on individual employment rates. If migrants … about 24% of the top-bottom variation in employment rates across European countries …

other countries. However, these policies also appear to encourage part-time work and employment in lower level positions: US …

and affects the overall effectiveness of forward guidance. We find that the central banks of the U.S., the U.K., Germany …