this happens mostly in large firms. There are also sizeable long-run wage effects of the reform, well beyond the legal …

Capital deepening may affect the evolution of the wage differential between skilled and unskilled workers differently … in countries with different labor market institutions. If labor market institutions raise the relative wage of unskilled …. Instead in the US, where wage-compressing institutions are weaker, firms invest more in high-skilled workers. We provide …

Theory predicts that the wage effects of government-mandated severance payments depend on workers' and firms' relative … EPL, while low-bargaining power workers (movers, blue collar and young workers) suffer a drop both in the wage level and …

and on the tenure-wage profile in a quasi-experimental setting. We consider a reform that introduced unjust- dismissal …

We study the distributional effect of a wage indexation mechanism - the Scala Mobile (SM) - that heavily compressed the … distribution of Italian wages during the 1970s and 1980s. The SM imposed large real wage increases at the bottom of the … distribution and was essentially irrelevant for high-wage workers. We document that this mechanism triggered a strong …