relations attributes, merged with accounting data. We estimate the elasticity of employment, working hours, wages and labour …-capita wages are insensitive to STW and adjustment mainly occurs through a reduction in working hours. These results are coherent …

wages. We use Belgian linked panel data and rely on the methodology from Hellerstein et al. (1999) to estimate ORU (over …

more layers are larger in size, in value added, and they pay higher wages. Firms are hierarchal in that lower layers have …/value added and decreases in mean firm wages (at pre-existing layers). The reverse holds for removing layers. This result also … holds for layer by layer mean size and wages for a majority of pre-existing layers. -- hierarchies ; organizations …

This paper uses individual data on employment and wages to shed light on the UK's productivity puzzle. It finds that … workforce composition cannot explain the reduction in wages and hence productivity that we observe; instead, real wages have … lower capital-labour ratio. We cannot tell whether productivity is driving wages or vice versa, but understanding why wages …