the case of Japan the gap in GDP per capita is essentially due to the lagging performance in labour productivity, the …

country labour market. Changes in the share of immigrants in the labour force may have a distributive impact on natives' wages …

lag behind natives in terms of employment and/or wages. The differences narrow as years since settlement elapse …, especially as regards wages, reflecting progressive assimilation. Strong differences in immigrant-to-native gaps are also …

the link between productivity and wages at the firm level. The results suggest that around 15% of cross-firm differences …Differences in average wages across firms – which account for around one-half of overall wage inequality – are mainly … explained by differences in firm wage premia (the part of wages that depends exclusively on characteristics of firms) rather …

markets. Focusing on subsets of OECD countries, we look at the implications of product market competition for industry wages …

examines, more particularly, levels and changes in labour productivity, unit labour costs and revealed comparative advantages … labour productivity have been achieved since 1997, especially during the post-crisis period. Secondly, this has been true for … productivity increased more in less productive sectors. Since the crisis, relative unit labour costs have also adjusted …