This Paper presents new estimates of the impact of job tenure on wages using a new French matched worker-firm dataset … valid instrumental variable for identifying the impact of job tenure on wages. Our new IV estimate of the return to job … relatively high wage offers tend to change firms more rapidly: they tend to have relatively high wages and low job tenure …

analysis indicates how the changes can segment the labour market into an expanding sector of restructured firms where wages are … rising, a contracting sector of traditional firms where wages are relatively stagnant, and an expanding pool of the …; the widening dispersion of wages within occupational, educational, and job tenure groups in the United Kingdom and the …

1990, we find that at the urban level richer diversity is systematically associated with higher average nominal wages for … the positive correlation between wages and diversity survives a battery of robustness checks, it seems to be larger once … wages. Comparing real and nominal wages across cities, we interpret these results as evidence that diversity enhances …

relationship between firm age and employee compensation as well as firm age and firm productivity suggest that there may be at …

wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the lowest wage in the market exceeds the minimum wage. The model has …

productivity) is low. Secondly, our estimates of the effects of training on wages are about half the size of the effects on …There is a vast empirical literature on the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of … productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity …

We analyse productivity growth in UK manufacturing 1980-92 using the newly available ARD panel of establishments drawn … establishments enter and increase market share). We find that (a) 'external restructuring' accounts for 50% of labour productivity …