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

setting wages and determining work amenities. In the administrative data, we causally examine through which channels unions … estimate the career effects of labor union membership. In the survey, we show how workers perceive the role of unions in … influence worker outcomes, whether unions influence workers differently across their careers, and what the overall long …

Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find …

underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers' beliefs in a representative survey in Germany …-wage firms, would not be viable at current wages. …

impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations … likelihood of native workers. Impacts on wages are positive for likely unauthorized women suggesting a large labor supply … reduction. For native-born workers, hourly wages also increase and provide some evidence of substitutability of unauthorized …

We propose a simple test that uses information on workers' mobility, wages and firms' profits to identify the sign and … agents' payoffs are increasing in their own types, our test exploits within-firm variation on wages to rank workers by their …

economic analysis. I check this assertion by analyzing wages and status within the firm, with status measured as the worker …