This paper analyses the evolution of quantitative measures of employee rents in Europe during the nineties, using the … transitions. The results are largely negative; there is robust evidence of falling rents during that period only in Ireland. …

reflects labour market wage rents. Perhaps surprisingly, wage rents are typical of the British public sector and permanent … contracts, but not of their French counterparts. In France, such rents are found in full-time, rather than part-time jobs. Hence …-outsider model lines, whereby wage rents are captured by the insiders of the public sector to the detriment of the private sector …

The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire … rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and …/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total of these rents: the difference in reported subjective well …

on the power of labor to extract rents and on the status quo level of firing costs. In particular, we show that when … of relatively large rents. Moreover, we demonstrate that when the status quo level of firing costs is relatively high … rigid high-rents economies, because good times" cut down the support for flexibility among the least productive employed …

countries, we find that the pandemic had only temporary negative effects on rents for some real estate types and increased asset …