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 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 …

(often) less effective negotiators than men. We use longitudinal wage data from Portugal, matched to balance sheet … bargaining strength on the male-female wage gap. We show that a model with additive fixed effects for workers and gender …-specific fixed effects for firms provides a close approximation to the wage structure for both men and women. Building on this model …

share of females reducing the wage level. These results are compatible with a theory where job promotion is an important … factor of wage increases: if more females are to be mentored, less promotion slots are available for males, but also the …

gender wage gap patterns in the EU since the onset of the Great Recession. We show that male selection into the labour market …

Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientation and gender wage differentials … in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in … calculating internationally consistent gender wage residuals in the first place. By comparing these two very different methods of …

productivity across firms mirror the trends in the wage inequality across workers. Two distinct literatures have searched for a ….5% increase in wages.A second literature focuses on firm-specific wage premiums, using the wage outcomes of job changers. This … literature also concludes that firm pay setting is important for wage inequality, with many studies finding that firm wage …