We survey recent microeconometric research on investment and employment that has used
panel data on individual firms or plants. We focus on model specification and econometric …

This study surveys the development and current status of models of union wage
determination since Dunlop and Ross first wrote on the subject in the 1940s. To start, I …

We study a longitudinal sample of over one million French workers from more than five
hundred thousand employing firms. We decompose real total annual compensation per …

The new edition of a widely used, comprehensive graduate-level text and professional
reference covering all aspects of labor economics, with substantial new material. This …

Unemployeement and taxes Do taxes affect the rate of umemployeement? To the layman,
the upward trend in European unemployment is related to the slowdown of economic …

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zu einer grundlichen~ berarbeitnn~. Dics bctrifft nicht nur die Datcn, die soweit wie moglich …

Rent-sharing by workers can reduce the incentives for investment if some of the returns to
sunk capital are captured in higher wages. We propose a simple measure of this “holdup” …

This chapter examines the impact of wage-setting institutions and government policies on
wages and employment, focusing on the OECD countries. There is considerable evidence …

The authors present important research showing that corporatist institutions generate
smaller non-competitive wage differentials than a decentralized system. A theoretical …

In the six years since the appearance of the first edition of Stephen Smith's book, labour
economics has become a more firmly entrenched subject on the curriculum. Previously …