Economic Analysis of Labor Markets and Labor Law: An Institutional/Industrial Relations Perspective

Labor Specialization, Ethnicity, and Metropolitan Labor Markets

This paper provides an empirical assessment of the extent to which co-ethnic workers are underor overrepresented in industry and occupation-based employment sectors based on the characteristics of workers themselves, attributes and resources of ethnic groups in which workers are affiliated, and characteristics of metropolitan areas. Specifically, the paper evaluates two claims found in the lite...

Equal Opportunity Law and the Construction of Internal Labor Markets

Internal Labor Markets and Manpower Analysis

Labor Productivity and the Law of Decreasing Labor Content

This paper analyzes labor productivity and the law of decreasing labor content (LDLC) originally formulated by Farjoun and Machover (1983). First, it is shown that the standard measures of labor productivity may be rather misleading, owing to their emphasis on monetary aggregates. Instead, the conventional classical-Marxian labor values provide the theoretically and empirically sound measures o...

Occupational Labor Markets

This paper is based on individual-level wage data made available by the Swedish Employers’ Federation (SAF). We are grateful to Ari Hietasalo and Åke Kempe SAF for their extensive and exceptionally expert cooperation in preparing these data for analysis. We thank John Ekberg and Jeremy Fox for excellent research assistance. This research was supported by the Swedish Council for Research in the ...