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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

particular pay, than comparable workers in the rest of the economy. The first aim of this analysis is to quantify the wage … penalty, if any, for workers in TAW. Secondly, we analyze the wage profile of workers before and after spells of TAW. Linked … not associated with a stigma effect that slows wage progression after working for TAW, contrary to prime - age and older …