In this paper, we analyze the connection between value added, wages, and labor market flows at the establishment level …

controlled for there is a further pervasive source of bias, namely the co-movement of firm employment and firm wages. In a simple … aggregate or firm level) to firm's employment and wages cause downward bias in OLS regression estimates of RTT. We show that the … between 3.5% and 4.5% of wages at 20 years of tenure - over 80% (50%) of the estimated RTT level itself. The results extend to …

-sectional heterogeneity of establishments' average real wages over the business cycle. While the median establishments' real wages are … procyclical, there is a large fraction of establishments with countercyclical real wages. We are the first to show that … establishments with more procyclical wages have a less procyclical hires rate and employment behavior. We propose a labor market flow …