Using longitudinal employer-employee data spanning over a 22-year period, we compare age-wage and age … ages, wages increase in line with productivity gains but as prime-age approaches, wage increases lag behind productivity …-level productivity exceeds their contribution to the wage bill. On the methodological side, we note that failure to account for the …

Focusing on private sector workplaces in Britain, we investigate whether the employment of older workers has …

, wage cost and cost competitiveness (i.e. its productivity-wage gap). To do so, we use detailed linked employer … of covariates, establishment fixed effects and endogeneity. Thus, our results suggest that wage cost and productivity …

frictions entails wage compression, larger productivity gain than wage growth to skill acquisition, and motivates a firm to … charged to clients are positively related to the length of training, but the initial wage paid to workers is not. We then … growth. Each of these results are consistent with wage compression that skills acquired through training and learning …

between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … part-timers is associated with wage penalties. The authors conclude that men and women differ with respect to motives for …

wage premium of training is estimated at 12%. Our results give support to recent theories that explain work related …