Since the global financial crisis, sector-level bargaining has come under renewed scrutiny.While in Southern Europe, the crisis raised concerns about the role of collectivebargaining as an obstacle to labor market adjustment, in Northern Europe it was perceivedmore favourably and, according to...

We contribute to the literature on Foreign Direct Investment and labour markets by examining wage differentials between domestic and foreign firms, drawing on a large Portuguese matched employer-employee panel. Using OLS, the foreign-firm premium is large and significantly positive but falls...

Do workers benefit from the education of their co-workers? This question is examined first by introducing a model of on-the-job schooling, which argues that educated workers may transfer part of their general skills to uneducated workers and that this spillover is affected by the degrees of...