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 …

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 …

compares patterns of wage mobility in Israel. First, the public and the private sectors are compared. Second, within each of … are more diffuse and unregulated. Based on alternative measures of wage mobility, the central finding of the paper is that … the extent of wage mobility in a given economic sector is negatively related to the degree of concentration in that sector …

particular pay, than comparable workers in the rest of theeconomy. The first aim of this analysis is to quantify the wage penalty …, if any, for workers inTAW. Secondly, we analyze the wage profile of workers before and after spells of TAW... …

Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientationand gender wage differentials … in international data. More market orientation might be relatedto gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in …