firm with stochastic product demand and hiring cost (= irreversible specific investments). There is wage bargaining between …

We analyse wage differences between permanent and fixed-term contracts across the EU using data from the European … permanent contract wage premium is higher for men, workers at middle age and with middle education, and performing non …-elementary occupations. We also find that permanent workers enjoy a higher wage premium for education and age. We explore cross …

Consider a labour market with heterogeneous workers. Firms recruit workers by fixing a hiring standard and a wage offer … simultaneously. A more demanding hiring standard necessitates a better wage offer in order to attract enough qualified applicants. As … a result, an efficiency wage effect is obtained. An equilibrium emerges which does not clear the labour market. The wage …

This research presents evidence on how the impact of industry concentration and unionism affect the Portuguese wage … of "Classificação das Actividades Económicas" -, and control for other wage determinants, as usually done in earnings …

positive compensating wage differentials that would otherwise be paid. Specifically, we ask whether industries with relatively …

This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched … employer-employee data set covering the period 1995-2002. Findings show the existence of large and persistent wage … hypothesis that workers with better unmeasured abilities are over-represented in high-wage sectors may not be rejected on the …

for worker self-selection into high-wage jobs. Using within-market variation, we also investigate the extent of (and …

is a wage penalty for labour broker employees and, if so, its magnitude. We control for individual and time fixed effects …

retirement age into Cahuc, Postel-Vinay, and Robin s (2006) strategic wage bargaining model with counteroffers and heterogeneous … of the current match. The bargaining power parameter influences the worker's reservation wage. The model can reproduce …