This paper uses a new data source to investigate whether wages rise more with seniority in unionized or non …-unionized workplaces. The data distinguish workers who are covered by incremental wage scales with automatic progression by seniority. For … union workers with seniority scales, the union wage differential increases with seniority. This is not the case for union …

This paper uses the British Household Panel Survey to investigate when seniority is rewarded by automatic incremental …

need not reflect the `true' relationship between earnings and tenure. In this paper we argue that the observation of the … earnings growth. We apply this simple idea to Japanese and UK data. We find that tenure effects on earnings are positive but …Standard estimates of earnings profiles ignore the fact that, with unobserved heterogeneity, cross-section evidence …

. Training benefits firms and employees since it significantly increases workers' productivity and their earnings. "--World Bank …