This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage … costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed Belgian linked panel data, covering all years …

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage … costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed Belgian linked panel data, covering all years …

, promotions and wage growth, sectoral affiliation and rent-sharing, and unobserved heterogeneity and dynamics …

This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched … employer-employee data set covering the period 1995-2002. Findings show the existence of large and persistent wage … hypothesis that workers with better unmeasured abilities are over-represented in high-wage sectors may not be rejected on the …

, wage and productivity in the Belgian private sector. More precisely, we examine how changes in the proportions of young (16 … presence of productivity-wage gaps. Results (robust to various potential econometric issues, including unobserved firm …