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Labor Market Institutions, Wages and Investment

Jorn-Steffen Pischke

CEP Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

Abstract: Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investmentdecisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wageinequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. Thesedifferent trends are the result of different investment decisions by firms for the jobs typicallyheld by less skilled workers. Firms in Europe have more incentives to invest in less skilledworkers, because minimum wages or union contracts mandate that relatively high wages haveto be paid to these workers. I report some empirical evidence for investments in training andphysical capital across the Atlantic, which is roughly in line with this theoretical reasoning.

Keywords: Frictional labor markets; human capital; changes in wage inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E22 E24 J23 J24 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-09
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