and non-random hiring. Since they accept lower wages, firms obtain a higher match surplus from hiring immigrants rather …. Whether job creation or competition is the dominating effect depends on the size of the induced fall in expected wages paid by … terms of both employment and wages for native workers. In contrast, documented immigration leads to a fall in natives …

differ in their productivities. Wages are dispersed because of search frictions and workers' productivity differentials. The …

wages of male workers who have previously become unemployed as the result of an establishment closure. To identify the …-employment probability by 7.5 percentage points. In contrast, there is no evidence of a statistically significant effect on wages. …

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 … equation on data for aggregate manufacturing wages in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden from the mid 1960s to the mid 1990s …

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 … equation on data for aggregate manufacturing wages in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden from the mid 1960s to the mid 1990s. …

, are the first to leave the firm (Last In, First Out; LIFO). Second, workers' wages rise with seniority (= a worker … to seniority in wages. Efficiency in hiring requires the workers' bargaining power to be in line with their share in the …

manufacturing. Earnings losses are larger for individuals with low initial wages, low initial tenure, and low attachment to the …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and … they prize complementarity in cognitive and interpersonal skills. The average return to VET skills in hourly wages is 9 …