This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched … employer-employee data set covering the period 1995-2002. Findings show the existence of large and persistent wage … hypothesis that workers with better unmeasured abilities are over-represented in high-wage sectors may not be rejected on the …

This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched … employer-employee data set covering all the years from 1999 to 2005. Findings show the existence of large wage differentials … differentials are persistent and no particular downward or upward trend is observed. However, the dispersion of inter-industry wage …

We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … industries. Overall, findings do not point to sizeable productivity-wage gaps except for age diversity …

between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … part-timers is associated with wage penalties. The authors conclude that men and women differ with respect to motives for …

, wage cost and cost competitiveness (i.e. its productivity-wage gap). To do so, we use detailed linked employer … of covariates, establishment fixed effects and endogeneity. Thus, our results suggest that wage cost and productivity …

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 …

Belgian linked employer-employee panel data, our findings show that firm agreements increase both wage costs and productivity …, this rent-sharing effect only holds in manufacturing. In private sector services, the raw wage premium associated to firm …

2016, our weighted multilevel log-linear regressions first indicate that in Belgium, the overall wage gap between workers … first-generation immigrants born in developing countries still experience a sizeable adjusted wage gap (2.7%), there is no … evidence of an adjusted wage gap for their second-generation peers. Moreover, our reweighted, recentered influence function …