affect the volatility of employment, or rather, the wage elasticity of labor demand. We analyze whether the wage elasticity …

This paper uses the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia to analyze the determinants of the level and growth … in earnings of adult male immigrants in their first 3.5 years in Australia. The theoretical framework is based on the …

This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses … Australia, but the wage penalty associated with overskilling increases with education. Although the general patterns of … overskilling (prevalence and penalties) are fairly similar between Australia and Britain, the problem appears to be greater in …

employers since wages fully adjust. Labour demand also responds with short lags within a year or two to cuts in taxes and labour …

–2020, we find for manufacturing establishments a gas price elasticity of labor demand of −0.02, likely reflecting a scale … price on wages of 2 percent is consistent with rent-sharing. …

in other firms (congestion). According to efficiency wage and bargaining theory, wages are set above the market clearing …

in other firms (congestion). According to efficiency wage and bargaining theory, wages are set above the market clearing …

and labor-demand elasticities. This weakness of labor demand elasticity in practice is perhaps explained by the tight …