relationship between wages on the one hand and worker and job type indiceson the other. However, for five European countries and … well. Allowing for unobserved heterogeneity and measurement error, we findthat reservation wages are 25% lower than they …

wages reflect this, with lower pay for greater uncertainty. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of education … as an indicator of the unobserved heterogeneity that employers face. We find solid evidence that starting wages are lower …

In a corporatist country, of which the Netherlands is an example, wages should not be distinguished by union membership … status, but by the bargaining regime. Four bargaining regimes can be distinguished: (i) company level bargaining, (ii …) industry level bargaining, (iii) mandatory extension of an industry agreement, and (iv) no collective bargaining. Acknowledging …

Nash bargaining between workers and employers. Under fairly mild assumptions, Nash bargaining predicts a wage penalty for … paper reviews the established empirical regularities and then provides Nash bargaining results that explain these …

make it easier for them to switch employers than for the part-time educated auditors. The predictions on tenure and wages …

expected to exert a downward pressure on wages. We revisit this issue by applying meta-analytic techniques to a sample of … immigration on wages of native groups with similar skills appears rather robust. …

This paper provides an economic foundation for non-binding mediation to stimulate first collective bargaining … efficient and proves immune to the insider-outsider problem of underhiring. We also demonstrate that equilibrium wages and …