Labour-market polarization is characterized by increased employment in occupations at the top but also at the bottom of the skills and wage distributions, followed by a relative decline in middling occupations. This paper documents a polarization trend also in the Nordic labour markets and...

This paper analyses wage formation in the Nordic countries at the regional level by the use of micro-data. Our results deviate systematically from the main conclusions drawn by Blanchflower and Oswald (1994). We find no stable negative relation between wages and unemployment across regions in...

We incorporate transaction taxes in a housing market search model with endogenous house prices and show that these taxes unambiguously create lock-in effects that reduce welfare. The lock-in effects are larger at low vacancy rates. Seller taxes raise prices and buyer taxes lower them and this...

Using Norwegian establishment surveys from 1997 and 2003, we show that performance-related pay is more prevalent in firms where workers of the main occupation have a high degree of autonomy in how to organize their work. This observation supports an interpretation of incentive pay as motivated...

EDWIN is a two-and-a-half-year research project supported by DG-Research of the European Commission, bringing together nine research teams from an equal number of European countries: Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and the United Kingdom. This volume of the...