employment to relative wages between and within industries. We find that centralized wage setting shifted Swedish employment away … of Sweden's centralized wage-setting beginning in 1983 led to widening wage differentials and a reversal in the evolution …

Centralized wage-setting institutions compress relative wages. Motivated by this fact, we investigate the effects of … centralized wage setting on the industry distribution of employment. We examine Sweden's industry distribution from 1960 to 1994 … distribution and their evolution over time to the structure of relative wages between and within industries. The empirical results …

-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 …