Sectoral contracts in many European countries set wage floors for different occupation groups. In addition, employers … often pay a wage premium (or wage cushion) to individual workers. We use administrative data from Portugal, linked to … collective bargaining agreements, to study the interactions between wage floors and wage cushions and quantify the impact of …

this happens mostly in large firms. There are also sizeable long-run wage effects of the reform, well beyond the legal …

Capital deepening may affect the evolution of the wage differential between skilled and unskilled workers differently … in countries with different labor market institutions. If labor market institutions raise the relative wage of unskilled …. Instead in the US, where wage-compressing institutions are weaker, firms invest more in high-skilled workers. We provide …

Theory predicts that the wage effects of government-mandated severance payments depend on workers' and firms' relative … EPL, while low-bargaining power workers (movers, blue collar and young workers) suffer a drop both in the wage level and …

and on the tenure-wage profile in a quasi-experimental setting. We consider a reform that introduced unjust- dismissal …

Using longitudinal employer-employee data spanning over a 22-year period, we compare age-wage and age … ages, wages increase in line with productivity gains but as prime-age approaches, wage increases lag behind productivity …-level productivity exceeds their contribution to the wage bill. On the methodological side, we note that failure to account for the …

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 …