This paper briefly summarizes the state and the debate and describes the results of a recent study of the links between trade, technical change and labour market behavior.

This paper revisits the issue of what can be learned about wage tenure profiles from displaced worker data. The positive relationship between wages and tenure in cross section data is consistent with the accumulation of firm specific capital. Alternatively, it may be explained by unobserved...

This paper provides an explanation for an important institutional feature of staggered time-dependent adjustment rules assumed in a number of macroeconomic models (Fischer, 1977; taylor, 1980; Blanchard, 1986).

This paper adapts a more general yet standard global model to investigate international effects of wage regulation and of the Asian emergence. The Davis result that European unemployment raises the wage in the US is supported, though the generalisations in our model greatly weaken it. By...

Using data for Swedish production workers, we find that the unexplained component of the gender wage is no larger for performance- related pay than for straight time wages suggesting the performance pay is no more discriminatory than time wages..

I use a unique data set of Canadian displaced workers to measure the effects of firm of employment on wages. This data set has the advantage of consisting of a sample of workers changing jobs for reasons (product demand shifts or technological changes) that are largely orthogonal to their...

This paper employs a global general equilibrium framework and sensitivity analysis to examine why it is that shocks in one country apprear to transmit to comparatively small changes in real factor rewards in its trading partners.

Efficiency wage considerations should be less important for piece-rate pay relative to time wages. Therefore, if industry wage differentials reflect efficiency wage factors, then these pay differences should be less sizable and have less explanatory power for piecework than for timework. We test...

As debt work-outs facilitate recovery from Asia'a recession, GDP there can be expected to rise and manufactured exports to expand. Asian imports and investment will remain low, however, as crisis-enhanced foreign debt is serviced and domestic savings continue to be sent abroad. Superficially,...