Call for references/data

["Per Gunnar Berglund" <pgb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear PKTers,

I am currently working on an article, supplying a theoretical rationale for
Robert Eisner's empirical findings about the relation between inflation and
unemployment. For this purpose, I would need some help with references and
data on the following:

1) Cyclical movements of US real wages. I haven't seen any survey articles
on the matter since Stanley Fischer's "Recent Developments in
Macroeconomics", published in The Economic Journal in 1987. Does anybody
know any fresher references on this issue?

2) Elasticity of US labour force with respect to the unemployment rate. It
is well known that the labour force itself tends to grow when unemployment
goes down, and to shrink when unemployment increases. Has anybody seen any
recent investigations of this relation?

3) Okun's law in the US. The relation between growth rates in GDP and
growth rates in employment (or unemployment). Recent estimates?

4) Statistical distribution of hourly wage rates. How are the wages
distributed?, that is How many percent of the US working hours are
"low-wage", "medium-wage" and "high-wage" (or whatever clusters, deciles,
percentiles, etc -- the more detailed the better), respectively?

Any help I can get will be appreciated, and referred to in writing.
Replies off-list to pgb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx .


Best,
Per


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