globalization may have different impacts on the gender wage gap depending on the specialization and trade pattern as well as the socio-economic situation. the main purpose of this paper is to examine an impact of globalization on gender wage inequality. specifically, the hypothesis is that globalization reduces gender wage gap. for this, we have employed a panel technique for 21 selected develo...

This paper aims at answering the question: How does a typically European bargaining system |with collective bargaining, extension mechanisms and national minimum wage |coexist with low unemployment rate and high wage °exibility? A unique data set on workers, ̄rms and collective bargaining contracts in the Portuguese economy is used to analyze the determinants of both the bargained wage and the ...

The largest market in national economies is the labor market. Labor market contracting is characterized by job search, often from unknown wage offer distributions. This paper reports experimental tests of finite horizon models of job search in which the wage offer distribution is unknown. Theoretically-optimal search from an unknown wage offer distribution can have the seemingly paradoxical pro...

Recent work by Robert Shimer (2005) has stressed the difficulties of the standard Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides (1994) model in explaining the cyclical movement of unemployment. As potential mechanism behind observed employment dynamics, several papers (e.g., Shimer 2004, Robert Hall 2005, and Hall and Paul Milgrom 2008) have suggested rigidities in the wage setting process th...

Globalization may have different impacts on the gender wage gap depending on the specialization and trade pattern as well as the socio-economic situation. The main purpose of this paper is to examine an impact of globalization on gender wage inequality. Specifically, the hypothesis is that globalization reduces gender wage gap. For this, we have employed a panel technique for 21 selected develo...