The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study … is set in an economy with close to complete union coverage where real wages have grown continuously in all parts of the … estimated elasticity of wages. Wage adjustments are larger for employees with high unemployment risk and for new hires entering …

collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the … levels of actual and contractual wages. Cross-sectional and fixed-effects estimations for the period 2001-2006 indicate that …

. During the second period, there was more scope for firm-specific factors to affect wages. We find a remarkable compression of … wages across the distribution in the first period, but in the second period, wage growth was quite uniform across the …

This paper examines the relationship between immigrant occupational composition and wages in Sweden. Effects of changes … estimated. Our results suggest that increases in immigrant density have only small effects on wages and that the negative … relationship between wages and the proportion of immigrant workers in an occupation, observed in data, is almost entirely accounted …

We exploit the construction of the Öresund bridge, which connects a medium-sized city in Sweden to the capital of …

this means for their wages. We show that about 9 percent of workers in plants with collective agreements do not enjoy … extending union wages to them in order to pay lower wages. This jeopardizes unions' goal of protecting all disadvantaged workers …

minimum wages is bargained at the nation-wide sectoral level. We conclude that, even in the presence of the underlying market …

to skills is higher under the more decentralized wage-setting systems. Using quantile regression, we also find that wages …

receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …