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

competition and creative destruction associated with these developments are more legitimate.Coordination in wage bargaining and …

) themax-mean wage differential. The latter measure of wage dispersion is more robustthan measures based on the reservation … wage, due to the long left tail of the wagedistribution. We estimate this wage differential using data on match quality … andallow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for theUS is consistent with an unemployment rate of …

wage setting without commitment creates a "business-stealing" externality. In the absence of congestion effects, this leads … to excessive vacancy creation. Under wage setting with commitment this externality is absent because when posting a wage …

We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a richmatched employer … set of worker- and firm-levelobservable and unobservable characteristics to the wage gap, and (ii) by controlling for … firm size and sales are, todifferent extents, important components of the wage gap both for exporters and importers …

employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data... …

wage differentials between large metropoles and small cities.<P>See publication in <A href …

production functions augmented with work environment indicators and aggregate employee characteristics and ii) firm mean wage …