evidence of a sizable effect of union affiliation on wages. Gelbach's (2016) decomposition procedure is next deployed to …

argues that in order to understand earnings dispersion we need to consider not only the dispersion of hourly wages but also … hours and wages, assessing their contribution to recent trends in earnings inequality. We find that, other than in the US … with respect to wages has also played a key role, notably in the two continental economies. This elasticity used to be …

normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes are driven equally by hours and wages which is consistent with …

drivers of the recent rise in German wage dispersion and pin down the relative contribution of plant and worker … characteristics. Moreover, we separately investigate the drivers of between-plant and within-plant wage dispersion. We also analyze … Germany. We disentangle the relative contribution of each single variable to the rise in wage dispersion using recentered …

This paper examines how collective bargaining through unions and workplace co-determination through works councils … exception. Wage mark-downs, that is wages below the marginal revenue product of labour rooted in employers’ monopsony power, are … and intensity of wage mark-downs whereas the opposite holds for wage mark-ups, that is wages above the marginal revenue …

minimum wages have been more frequent than in collective bargaining in the last decades, and the majority of these were …

are equally weighted in the household utility function; (3) Differences in the ratio of the partners' hourly wages are …

Labor market opportunities and wages may be unfair for various reasons, and how workers respond to different types of … substantially reduce their labor supply compared to the case of equal low wages (-22%). This decrease is twice as large as those … induced by low wages due to fair chances or unfair chances coming from an unspecified source. In addition, exploratory …