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 …

This paper uses individual data on employment and wages to shed light on the UK's productivity puzzle. It finds that … workforce composition cannot explain the reduction in wages and hence productivity that we observe; instead, real wages have … lower capital-labour ratio. We cannot tell whether productivity is driving wages or vice versa, but understanding why wages …