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 …

underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers' beliefs in a representative survey in Germany …-wage firms, would not be viable at current wages. …

protection decreases job creation as well as job destruction. However, in most models, wages are bargained individually between … workers and firms. Using a conventional matching model in which a monopoly union sets wages, I show that employment protection …

Italy. In particular, the existence of high wage floor -- either set through statutory minimum wages or by collective …

This paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between reservation wages of unemployed workers and … provides an interesting perspective on how reservation wages change over time and how they correlate with accepted wage offers …

model predicts a joint recovery of wages and commuting despite a static tradeoff between the two attributes. …

This paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between reservation wages of unemployed workers and …-Economic Panel) provides an interesting perspective on how reservation wages change over time and how they correlate with accepted …