Centralized wage-setting institutions compress relative wages. Motivated by this fact, we investigate the effects of … centralized wage setting on the industry distribution of employment. We examine Sweden's industry distribution from 1960 to 1994 … distribution and their evolution over time to the structure of relative wages between and within industries. The empirical results …

Numerous studies on firm-level data have reported higher average wages in foreign-owned firms than in domestically … individual wages, controlling for individual and firm heterogeneity as well as for possible selection bias in foreign … negative effect on wages. …

factor shares turn in favour of wages, when unemployment falls. The only important prerequisite for this result is that money … wages are treated as downward rigid. The analysis remains valid when firms experience constant returns to labour in the … partly determined by the unemployment stock. As intuition says the share of wages in value added increases with the stock of …

performed, wages should in principle reflect productivity differences and that it is more difficult to discriminate on the basis … working in the same occupation in the same establishment, in three countries, the U.S., Norway, and Sweden. Our findings are …

This paper is the first to estimate the effects of minimum wages on the unemployment of refugee immigrants. The … collectively agreed minimum wages raise both the incidence of unemployment and days in unemployment considerably for male refugees …