This paper studies the link between hourly wages and workers' subjective assessments of how easy it would be to find … opportunities and respondents who think they are difficult to replace receive higher wages. The results appear to be consistent with …

of employment across countries and thus a change in the trade-off between wages and employment faced by wage setters …. While the effects of product market integration on the trade-off between wages and employment in general is ambiguous, it is … through trade. Unambiguously, real wages and employment and welfare improve upon reductions in trade frictions, and therefore …

the loses to the low paid. Product market integration may thus lead to a more inequal distribution of wages and employment …

pecuniary incentives. However, wages as a whole include offsetting elements. It is shown that compensations for transferable … job seeking. High firm-level wages tend to decrease job-to-job switches but also to increase withdrawals from the … worse labour market position. – wages ; compensation policy ; unemployment ; worker mobility ; linked employer-employee data …

-employee Finnish data over the period 1989-1996. We show that the unobserved human capital component of wages is increasing in firm … size and explains a substantial share of the higher wages in large firms. We suggest alternative explanations for this. To … begin with, high wages lead directly to larger firm size through lower job search of employers. In addition, large firms can …

increasing wage variance between plants, an increasing gap between average non-productive and productive worker wages and an …

manufacturing and service industries in 6 distinct regimes that differ in the type of competition prevailing in product and labor …

high-tech projects, which however are only loosely related to Russian manufacturing capacity. Reform of the public R …

the loses to the low paid. Product market integration may thus lead to a more inequal distribution of wages and employment …