The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study … is set in an economy with close to complete union coverage where real wages have grown continuously in all parts of the … estimated elasticity of wages. Wage adjustments are larger for employees with high unemployment risk and for new hires entering …

We study how workers' wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms' labor productivity. Using unique data with … of wages to sectoral labor productivity is almost three times larger than the response to pure idiosyncratic (firm …

We study how workers' wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms' labor productivity. Using unique data with … of wages to sectoral labor productivity is almost three times larger than the response to pure idiosyncratic (firm …

The paper studies how social job finding networks affect firms' selection of employees and the setting of entry wages … entry wages into skill intensive jobs. Incumbent workers of high aptitude are more likely to be linked to entering workers … starting wages of linked entrants, suggesting that firms use the ability-density of social networks when setting entry wages …

We study how workers' wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms' labor productivity. Using unique data with … of wages to sectoral labor productivity is almost three times lager than the response to pure idiosyncratic (firm …

average across countries, changes in the dispersion of average wages between firms explain about half of the changes in … productivity-related premia that firms pay their workers above common market wages. The remaining third can be attributed to …

average across countries, changes in the dispersion of average wages between firms explain about half of the changes in … productivity-related premia that firms pay their workers above common market wages. The remaining third can be attributed to …

average across countries, changes in the dispersion of average wages between firms explain about half of the changes in … productivity-related premia that firms pay their workers above common market wages. The remaining third can be attributed to … results suggest that firms play an important role in explaining wage inequality as wages are driven to a significant extent by …

time are well in line with a process of unbundling; sorting on comparative advantage has increased and the market wages of …