. The major finding is that unionism substantively reduces within-establishment dispersion of wages, in part through … individual determination. Dispersion of wages between organized plants is reduced compared to dispersion of wages between … dispersion of wages within firms and in the economy as a whole …

Centralized wage-setting institutions compress relative wages. Motivated by this fact, we investigate the effects of … centralized wage setting on the industry distribution of employment. We examine Sweden's industry distribution from 1960 to 1994 … distribution and their evolution over time to the structure of relative wages between and within industries. The empirical results …

interesting data patterns. For example, we find that when there is no explicit statement that wages are negotiable, men are more … likely to negotiate than women. However, when we explicitly mention the possibility that wages are negotiable, this …

can be characterized by a non-degenerate distribution of wages in which more productive firms pay more if employed workers …

nearly as high as the wage dispersion overall. The standard deviation of wages within the firm is about 80% of the standard … have become more pronounced. Still, the variance of wages within the average firms remains high …

to study the effects of firm-level contracting on the structure of wages. We estimate a series of wage determination …