How are wages set in an open economy? What role is played by demand pressure, international competition, and structural … factors in the labour market? How important is nominal wage rigidity and exchange rate policy for the evolution of real wages … and competitiveness? To answer these questions, we formulate a theoretical model of wage bargaining in an open economy and …

setting wages and determining work amenities. In the administrative data, we causally examine through which channels unions … depending on the age at which workers enroll. In addition, we show that focusing on a restricted set of outcomes, such as wages …

influence function (RIF) regressions. The most important drivers of wage dispersion are industry effects and the bargaining … collective bargaining coverage and the strong increase in wage dispersion within the group of covered plants have played a …

evidence of a sizable effect of union affiliation on wages. Gelbach's (2016) decomposition procedure is next deployed to …

heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determined by a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage …