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 …

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... …

(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 …

for different durations. After controlling for the contemporaneous impact of the minimum wage, its long-run impact … translates into: an overall wage premium, consistent with an upgrading in the quality of jobs offered; a flatter tenure …-earnings profile, consistent with lower initial investment in firm-specific training. Interestingly, the overall wage premium increases …

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 …