of reporting error and cover the entire population of workers, we find a substantial degree of downward nominal wage … flexibility in Ireland in the pre-crisis period. Furthermore, we observe a significant change in wage dynamics since the crisis … began. It was only after the peak crisis period that pay freezes became a feature of the Irish wage change distribution. …

high for immigrants than for natives. By using longitudinal social security data, I find that wage cyclicality is higher …

-term or indefinite-term contracts. Indefinite-term contracts are associated with higher wage protection than fixed … that the monthly wage of native workers covered by fixed-term contracts decreases in response to immigration, while …

‐finding rates. The proposed wage rule is consistent with empirical responses of wages to both anticipated and unanticipated …

-trivial dispersion of firm sizes; when firms' production technologies exhibit decreasing returns to labor, it also generates wage …

Wage developments and related policies that determine labor markets functioning and wage formation processes, are key … factors with central importance in EMU. Flexibility in labor markets functioning and wage-setting aiming to nominal and real … wage flexibility, has been the most important policy instrument remaining at national level for responsive national …

This paper examines the impacts of the introduction of the UK National Minimum Wage (NMW) in 1999 and the introduction … of the UK National Living Wage (NLW) in 2016 in Northern Ireland (NI) on employment and hours. NI is the only part of the … other side of the border (i.e., Republic of Ireland). This discontinuity in minimum wage coverage enables a research design …