employer labor market power reduces wage dispersion. We test this hypothesis using Social Security data from Lithuania. We … first fit a two-way fixed effects model to quantify the contribution of worker and firm heterogeneity to wage dispersion and … document that the compression of dispersion in firm fixed effects has been the main source of the decline in inequality over …

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 …

-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …

wage bin throughout the monthly wage distribution. We find that, after one month, wages increased by 17 to 37 percent for …

union to lower wages. This mitigates the positive impact on absence. Moreover, a union may oppose higher sick pay if it … reduces labour supply sufficiently. Better employee health tends to foster wage demands. If the union determines both wages … and sick pay, we identify situations in which it will substitute wages for sick pay because adverse absence effects can be …

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

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