can result from contracts, implicit contracts, from efficiency wages and from insider-outsider behaviour. Based on a … survey of 801 firms strong support has been found for explanations based on collective wage agreements and on efficency wages … quits are important reasons for wage rigidities for high skilled labour. Compared to findings from the USA, in Germany …

and productivity developments in Germany, the European Union's periphery countries Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain … along with the US for the period 1980-2010. Apart from the contribution of productivity to wages, we take into account the …, aiming at aligning wage growth with labour productivity growth at the national levels. In this context, we analyse the wage …

This paper employs a novel dataset on government wages to investigate the relationship between government remuneration … government wages as used in previous research. When the relationship between government wages and corruption is modeled to vary … with the level of income, we find that the impact of government wages on corruption is strong at relatively low …

This paper provides an empirical analysis on the determination of wages at the sectoral level in main industrial … economies. Nominal wages are bargained between labour unions and employers in imperfect competitive markets, where spillovers … for services sectors. It reflects national inflation and productivity growth, while labour market tightness is negligible …

The paper analyzes wages in the U.S. airline industry, focusing on the role of collective bargaining in a changing …, wages are likely to head upward as carriers' financial health returns. Such wage levels may or may not be sustainable in the …

wages are solely determined on the basis of their productivity. Findings are rather in accordance with shirking and matching …One of the most stylized facts in labor economics is the finding that wages tend to rise with job duration but what is … the role of productivity between this relation? Intuitively, it seems rather unspectacular that experienced workers …