expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by Lazear (1979), we discuss steep … seniority wage profiles as incentives for firms to dismiss older workers before retirement. Conditional on individual retirement … incentives, e.g., social security wealth or health status, the steepness of the wage profile will have different incentives for …

This paper studies the wage differentials between the public and private sectors in Spain, as well as its distribution … across different educational levels and by gender. To do so, the well-known Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of mincerian wage … regressions is applied for both sectors, breaking down the (public-private) wage gap into a component explained by differences in …

shock leads to larger wage increases for high-skilled workers than for low-skilled workers, due to the smaller matching … frictions of the former (SAM-asymmetry channel). Moreover, the increase in capital demand amplifies this wage divergence due to …

We show that providing publicly available wage information in vacancies, so-called external pay transparency, can … unequal pay. We exploit a reform of Austria's Equal Treatment Law to evaluate how providing wage information in vacancies … affects the gender wage gap. To take into account that the value of providing such external pay information is likely to be …