This paper uses information from a rich firm-level survey on wage and price-setting procedures, in around 15,000 firms in 15 European Union countries, to investigate the relative importance of internal versus external factors in the setting of wages of newly hired workers. The evidence suggests...

This paper uses information from a rich firm-level survey on wage and price-setting procedures, in around 15,000 firms in 15 European Union countries, to investigate the relative importance of internal versus external factors in the setting of wages of newly hired workers. The evidence suggests...

The continuous impact of uncertain economic environment affected most organizations’ workforce through an uninterrupted increase of unemployment, wage reduction and diminution in offered benefits, thus forcing more and more companies to revise their compensation strategy. Employee compensation...

Although there are quite a lot of studies that have tried to identify factors shaping pay structures, not many works have showed their effects on organizations. Analysis of compensation differences between jobs and levels -pay dispersion- report more controversies and contradictions than...

El análisis de las diferencias retributivas entre puestos y niveles –o dispersión retributiva- hatraído más controversias y contradicciones que consensos en la investigación empírica. En este trabajo se intentan resolver algunas de estas cuestiones, elaborando un modelo de investigación...