. Employers and employees can also negotiate firm-specific contracts. We use a large matched employer-employee data set from Spain … to study the effects of firm-level contracting on the structure of wages. We estimate a series of wage determination …

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

Using Canadian data on large, private-sector contract negotiations from January 1967 to March 1993, we find that wages … workers during strikes is associated with significantly higher wages, and more frequent and longer strikes. This is consistent …

literature for over thirty years. The wages and employment o typographers are examined to see whether they can be usefully … characterized as the outcome of a process by which the union maximizes an objective function containing wages and employment and is … wages and employment of these workers compared with our more general formulation …

. 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 …

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 …

monopoly positions when determining wages. Although workers are not at each instant perfectly mobile across cities, in the … explore the joint determination of wages, unemployment, house prices and city size (or migration). A key role of the model is …