percent and 1 percent of the within-firm wage distribution rise substantially. Instead, the effect on average wages is small …

evaluates that literature, clarifies what tournament theory predicts about the relationship, identifies methodological pitfalls … relationship between pay disparity and firm performance. Tournament theory offers a unified framework that can explain an inverted …

its strength and weakness, discuss its connections with theory, and draw out potential policy implications of its findings …

The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study … estimated elasticity of wages. Wage adjustments are larger for employees with high unemployment risk and for new hires entering … is set in an economy with close to complete union coverage where real wages have grown continuously in all parts of the …

economic conditions at the time of hiring on future wages. Measured by the labor's user cost, the price of labor is …

risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …