economic conditions at the time of hiring on future wages. Measured by the labor's user cost, the price of labor is …

Typical measures of wages, such as average hourly earnings, fail to capture cyclicality in the effective cost of labor … in the presence of (i) cyclical fluctuations in the quality of worker-firm matches, or (ii) wages being smoothed within … recession affects user cost: It lowers the new-hire wage; it lowers wages going forward in the match; but it also results in …

-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 …

Using administrative data from Germany, this paper analyzes the relation between wages and past and current labor … wages are related to past labor market conditions as contract theories postulate. However, past labor market conditions also … affect contemporaneous wages through the evolution of the match qualities over a worker's job history - the main hypothesis …

The rarity with which firms reduce nominal wages has been frequently observed, even in the face of considerable … incidence of wage cuts and to assess the relevance of a range of potential reasons for why they avoid cutting wages. Concerns …

Using administrative employer-employee data from Germany, we investigate the relationship between wages and past and … find strong evidence for history dependent wages, manifested in both hiring and retention premiums - which is consistent … match quality, we find that wages of new hires from unemployment are no more cyclical, but those of job changers are more …

Using employer-employee data from Germany, this paper analyzes the relationship between wages and past and … business cycle. The results are mixed: On the one hand, the data suggest that wages depend on labor market conditions when a … contemporaneous wages through the evolution of match quality over a worker's job history - the main hypothesis of the on …