intensity of competition in firms' product markets, on the importance of collective wage bargaining and on other structural and …

matched with firms' annual accounts for Belgium over the period 1997-2001. Results point to asymmetric behaviour depending on …. Wage growth of job stayers is moderated but still positive; and wages of entrants compared with those of incumbents are no …

on base wages. We broaden the analysis beyond downward rigidity in base wages by investigating the use of other margins …

interaction between prices and wages is time-varying and depends on the state of the economy and on the shocks hitting the economy …

We use firm-level survey data from 25 EU countries to analyse how firms adjust their labour costs (employment, wages … likely to reduce employment, then hourly wages and then hours worked, regardless of the source of the shock. Results for the … response to positive shocks in 2010-13, firms were more likely to increase wages, followed by increases in employment and then …

–2013. We find that firms subject to nominal wage rigidities, which prevent them from adjusting base wages, are more likely to … rigidity, they do so to a lesser extent than base wages …

importance of wage bargaining above the firm level, the automatic system of index-linking wages to past inflation, the limited …

frequency of price changes appears to be positively affected by the market competition. Labour cost share is not found to be … firms following the investigated shocks is also affected by the level of competition. The role of collective pay agreements …

This paper investigates the relationship between public and private wages in the five largest euro area countries for … the period 1997-2017. The analysis shows that there exists a positive and significant response of private wages to a …, Spain, Italy and non-significant in Germany and the Netherlands). Interestingly, the response of private wages is found to …