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Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in the Netherlands 1999-2003
Borghans, Lex - 2007
In this paper we document the wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands in the period 1999-2003. We explain … the importance of wage-setting institutions in the Netherlands and the main actors. The analyses are based on … period investigated the Netherlands experienced an increase in wage inequality. Despite the centralized system of wage …
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The Role of Sectoral Growth Patterns in Labor Market Development
Arias, Javier - 2012
This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries...
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Wage Adjustment and Productivity Shocks
Carlsson, Mikael - 2011
We study how workers' wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms' labor productivity. Using unique data with highly reliable firm-level output prices and quantities in the manufacturing sector in Sweden, we are able to derive measures of physical (as opposed to revenue) TFP to instrument...
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Unions, Wage Gaps, and Wage Dispersion : New Evidence from the Americas
Rios Avila, Fernando - 2012
Using a common methodology, the effects of unions on wage levels and wage dispersion are estimated for two neighboring countries, Bolivia and Chile, and for the U.S. The analysis shows that unions have broadly similar effects on the wage distribution within these three economies. The findings...
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The Equality Multiplier : How Wage Setting and Welfare Spending Make Similar Countries Diverge
Barth, Erling - 2012
The complementarity between wage setting and welfare spending can explain how almost equally rich countries differ in economic and social equality among their citizens. More wage equality increases the welfare generosity via political competition in elections. A more generous welfare state fuels...
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Is There Monopsonistic Discrimination Against Immigrants? First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Hirsch, Boris - 2012
This paper investigates immigrants' and natives' labour supply to the firm within a semi-structural approach based on a dynamic monopsony framework. Applying duration models to a large administrative employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that once accounting for unobserved worker...
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Flexible Wages, Bargaining, and the Gender Gap
Biasi, Barbara; Sarsons, Heather - 2021
Does flexible pay increase the gender wage gap? To answer this question we analyze the wages of public-school teachers in Wisconsin, where a 2011 reform allowed school districts to set teachers' pay more flexibly and engage in individual negotiations. Using quasi-exogenous variation in the...
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How Do Agents React to Dynamic Wage Increases? An Experimental Study
Sliwka, Dirk - 2016
We investigate how workers' performance is affected by the timing of wages in a real-effort experiment. In all treatments agents earn the same wage sum but wage increases are distributed differently over time. We find that agents work harder under increasing wage profiles if they do not know...
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Labor Market Imperfections and the Firm's Wage Setting Policy
Félix, Sónia - 2016
We use matched employer-employee data and firm balance sheet data to investigate the importance of firm productivity and firm labor market power in explaining firm heterogeneity in wage formation. We use a linear regression model with one interacted high dimensional fixed effect to estimate...
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Wage Flexibility Under Sectoral Bargaining
Card, David; Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2022
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...
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