effects. Wages and employment in manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, hotels and restaurants and social and personal …This paper considers the (short run) employment and wage effects of the 2004 EUenlargement on firms located close to … matching approach. We evaluate changes in total employment, the employment shares of low-skilled and Eastern European workers …

policies and higher wages than the periphery without inducing a relocation of firms. The scope to have higher wage is …

This paper examines the impact of market integration in the presence of a labor union. Effects on wages, employment … differentiation, and the nature of competition in the goods market. One surprising result is that union wages and union rents can …

differences, limited or restricted integration may generate wage and employment adjustments that could be avoided if countries … on wages than countries that do specialize. Moreover, if non-tradable prices are downward rigid and there are some limits … to the current account deficits countries can run, employment costs may arise. The model shows that these costs may be …

employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich … knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set …

employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich … knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zone" where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set …

effect of relative functional specialisation on wages and non-wage working conditions. In line with the GVC literature … functional specialisation patterns on wages in EU member states at the industry level across time. While relative functional … specialisation in fabrication tends to hold back wages, functional specialisation in R&D has a positive effect on wage progression …