on wages which can be seen as a lower bound for the effects on productivity. Based on panel data from the Swiss Labour … together, there are significant effects of work-related training on wages of roughly 2% for each training event. There is some …

stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …

unobserved firm characteristics affecting the average level and trend growth of wages. These controls have little effect on the …

wages to reflect this. Formal analysis supports the intuition. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of … education as an indicator of the heterogeneity that employers face. We find solid evidence that starting wages are lower if the … variance of exam grades is higher and that starting wages are lower if the skew is higher: employers shift quality risk to new …

collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the … levels of actual and contractual wages. Cross-sectional and fixed-effects estimations for the period 2001-2006 indicate that …

very rich linked employer-employee dataset which provides detailed information on wages, productivity, and worker's and …

the labor market propagate to the rest of the economy through changes in employment, wages and local prices and how this …

wages with respect to unemployment postulated by Blanchflower and Oswald. In this regime, we also find that works councils … dampen the adjustment of wages to the regional unemployment situation. In the other regimes of plants that either do not make …