In this paper, we demonstrate substantial heterogeneity in wage growth across firms within industry, and across workers within firm in Belgium. This variation does not appear to be consistent with simple measurement error stories, but rather seems to be evidence of a more complex labor market....

Cet expose s'attrade a expliquer les mouvements dans la productivite du travail. Le but de cet ouvrage est de tester les resultats theoriques de Ho rning (1994). Celui-ci propose des mouvements procycliques du "labour hoarding" comme solution aux problemes encourus par les modeles des cycles...

In this paper, we document the importance of individual variations in wage outcomes of displacement, as opposed to the change in the wage distribution itself. Most of the research on displaced workers has focused on analyzing changes in the wage distribution. We show that, while the changes in...

Using longitudinal matched employer-employee data, we show that a standard wage equation ignoring firm and individual effects yields a baseline explaining 36 percent of wage variation. Firm specific wage components, including common firm-wide omitted human capital, accounts for an additional 22...

The US unemployment insurance system is experience rated. Firms using the system more often have to pay higher UI taxes in order to cover the additional burden imposed on the system. Experience rating introduces a tax on layoffs which is supposed to counterbalance the implicit layoff subsidy...