bargaining power of workers, leading to lower average wages. A key insight is that employers credibly refuse to pay high wages to … individual bargaining power, such as under a collective bargaining agreement or in markets with posted wages, greater … transparency has a muted impact on average wages. We test these predictions by evaluating the roll-out of U.S. state legislation …

. The major finding is that unionism substantively reduces within-establishment dispersion of wages, in part through … individual determination. Dispersion of wages between organized plants is reduced compared to dispersion of wages between … dispersion of wages within firms and in the economy as a whole …

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 …

Wage structure, raises, and mobility : an introduction to international comparisons of the structure of wages within … the Netherlands, 1999-2003 / Lex Borghans and Ben Kriechel -- Finland : firm factors in wages and wage changes / Roope … François Rycx -- Wage dispersion between and within plants : Sweden 1985-2000 / Oskar Nordström Skans, Per-Anders Edin and …

sectoral wage floors. Although wages exhibit a "spike" at the wage floor, a typical worker receives a 20% premium over the … wages to covary with firm-specific productivity, even within sectoral agreements. Contract negotiations tend to raise all … absence of other factors would have led to rising real wages …

can be characterized by a non-degenerate distribution of wages in which more productive firms pay more if employed workers …

dispersion within firms is nearly as high as the wage dispersion overall. The standard deviation of wages within the firm is … lawyers and the differences between firms have become more pronounced. Still, the variance of wages within the average firms …

to study the effects of firm-level contracting on the structure of wages. We estimate a series of wage determination …