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

-specific wage levels in a public-sector setting where wages otherwise are set according to individualized wage bargaining. The … agreement stipulated that wages should increase in proportion to the number of low-paid females within each establishment. We … find that actual wages among incubents responded to the share of females with a wage below the stipulated threshold …

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 …