We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is … relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …

reallocate mostly to low capital-intensive firms, experiencing persistent wage losses. …

2000s, while the employer size wage premium followed the opposite trajectory. In this paper, we show that these two … developments are interrelated. More precisely, our results suggest that variations in the employer size wage premiums induced …-of-variety preferences for employers. Both empirics and theory reveal that higher size wage premiums decrease average establishment size by …

This paper studies the impact of downward wage rigidity on wage and employment dynamics after the outbreak of major … recessions in Spain. Downward wage rigidity stems from collective agreements, which set province-sector-skill specific minimum … wage floors for all workers. By exploiting variation in the renewal of collective contracts, we find that agreements signed …