hiring costs to analyse the link between sectoral resource allocation, low productivity growth and stagnant real wages. My … wages. I show, however, that in the immediate phase following the labor supply shock, labor productivity and real wages … technology growth and depressing real wages and productivity. I demonstrate that due to the learning-by-doing growth externality …

union density on firm productivity and wages in the population of Norwegian firms over the period 2001 to 2012. Increases in … union density lead to substantial increases in firm productivity and wages having accounted for the potential endogeneity of …

We estimate how much of the gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility is retained by the hiring firms …