This paper uses the task-content-of-occupations framework to analyze trends in employment and wages of female and male … occupations for most of the period of analysis. However, the analysis finds no consistent, significant changes in wages based on …

collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the … levels of actual and contractual wages. Cross-sectional and fixed-effects estimations for the period 2001-2006 indicate that …

One of the predictions of the insider-outsider theory is that wages will be higher in sectors (firms) with high labor … power tend to pay higher wages. In particular, we found that the threat of dismissal acts to weaken insiders’ bargaining … power and, consequently, to restrain their wage claims. Moreover, the results also showed that real wages in Portugal are …