The long literatures on the determinants of wage rates at the individual level and on the empirical relation between productivity and wage rates intersect when attention is focused on longitudinally linked employer-employee data. We estimate separate statistical components of wage rates...

This paper provides a game theoritic rationale for the use of standards of behavior in hierarchies. lt proves that the common knowledge of such standards in a long term relationship generates tacit cooperation as long as the time horizon is far enough and that intermediary observations are...

This paper examines the evolution of the wage structure in France after 1984. Our data come from two matched employer-employee wage surveys performed in 1986 and 1992. So, we have two cross-sections of establishments and individuals. A subsample of establishments present in both surveys allows...