According to the authors, the end of the Cold War, coupled with recent trends in East and Southeast Asia to replace war and violent nationalism with negotiation and compromise, has presented China and Vietnam with an opportunity to improve their historically adversarial relationship. The authors...

This paper uses micro panel data to examine differences in the cyclical variability of employment, hours, and real wages for skilled and unskilled workers. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we find that, at the aggregate level, skilled and unskilled workers are subject to essentially the same...

In this paper, we use micro panel data to examine the effects of oil price changes on employment and real wages, at the aggregate and industry levels. We also measure differences in the employment and wage responses for workers differentiated on the basis of skill level. We find that oil price...