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 …

exception. Wage mark-downs, that is wages below the marginal revenue product of labour rooted in employers' monopsony power, are … and intensity of wage mark-downs whereas the opposite holds for wage mark-ups, that is wages above the marginal revenue …

-specific wage levels in a public-sector setting where wages otherwise are set according to individualized wage bargaining. The … agreement stipulated that wages should increase in proportion to the number of low-paid females within each establishment. We … find that actual wages among incubents responded to the share of females with a wage below the stipulated threshold …