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

. During the second period, there was more scope for firm-specific factors to affect wages. We find a remarkable compression of … wages across the distribution in the first period, but in the second period, wage growth was quite uniform across the …

Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an … robustness checks. Joining a sectoral agreement is found always to produce higher wages, while exiting a sectoral agreement no …

Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … rather stable in the years after the crisis in 2008. The main explanation is most likely that the recession in Sweden was … were employed. If the present EMU crisis is spreading to Sweden the result may of course be different. …

wages and coverage rates, and (c) hand-collected information on minimum rates from more than 1,100 sectoral-level agreements …