, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of … aggregate employment …

collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and … active labor market policies. Scandinavia and Central Europe follow more interventionist policies than Canada, the UK and the …

moments of the distributions of earnings, employment and wage shocks across individuals. Our main finding is that …

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 …

firms, and multiple asymmetric regions. Wages, productivity, consumption diversity, and markups across firms and markets are … Canada-US regional data, we structurally estimate the model and simulate the impacts of removing all trade barriers generated … by the Canada-US border. We find that Canadian average labor productivity increases by 8.03%, whereas US average labor …

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

selectivity of Brazilian workers into formal employment. The links between firm performance and wage components in Brazil resemble …