zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …

We provide a set of stylized facts on the response of industry nominal wage growth to aggregate and industry- specific … canonical wage contracts model; the response of nominal wage growth to expected inflation is estimated to be between 0.6 and 0 ….8. This estimate holds for several sectors within manufacturing. The response of nominal wage growth to unexpected inflation …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain and rising continental European unemployment have led to a popular view …, combined with flexible wages in the Anglo-Saxon countries, but wage rigidities in continental Europe ('Krugman hypothesis …

as measured by standard indices of the skill-intensity of employment. This is significant since most of the impact of … little unambiguous evidence of a close link between computerization and relative wage change. Nor do we find that the … overall rate; measures of wage rigidity are not closely correlated with unemployment problems; and no clear empirical link has …

voluntary or involuntary. In addition, they look at the decline in the median wage. Using data from the March Consumer … Population Survey on full-time, full-year (FTFY) employment among males for the years 1967-1992, the authors reported actual …

, female labor. Wage growth over the next 20 years will continue to favor college educated workers and in particular college …

immigrant networks and negative effects of unemployment rates. In addition, we find that employment protection, union coverage …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are …

This paper explores the evolution of the average wage of employees over the life-cycle of a manufacturing plant. The … average wage starts out low for a new plant and increases along with labor productivity as the plant ages. As a plant … approaches exit, its average wage falls, but more slowly than it rises in the case of growing plants. Moreover, the average wage …

A large body of literature estimates the relative wage impacts of immigration on low- and high-skill natives, but it is … unclear how these effects map onto changes of the wage distribution. I document the movement of foreign-born workers in the U ….S. wage distribution, showing that, since 1980, they have become increasingly overrepresented in the bottom. Downgrading of …