Portuguese firms engage in intense reallocation, most employers simultaneously hire andseparate from workers, resulting in a large heterogeneity of flows and excess turnover. Largeand older firms have lower flows, but high excess turnover rates. In small firms, hires andseparations move...

Using a longitudinal matched employer-employee data set for Portugal over the 1986-2005period, this study analyzes the heterogeneity in wages responses to aggregate labor marketconditions for newly hired workers and existing workers. Accounting for both worker and firmheterogeneity, the data...

In this presentation, I describe an alternative iterative approach for the estimation of linear regression models with high-dimensional fixed-effects, such as large employer–employee datasets. This approach is computationally intensive but imposes minimum memory requirements. I also show that...

Taking as our point of departure a model proposed by David Card (2001), we suggest new methods for analyzing wage dispersion in a partially unionized labor market. Card's method disaggregates the la- bor population into skill categories, which procedure entails some loss of information....

Drawing on evidence from the United States and Germany, this paper offers a survey of the effects of worker representation (in unions and works councils) and innovative work practices on firm performance. The interaction between worker representation and high performance work practices provides...