more need for layoffs and labour flexibility have lower wages in countries where stricter EPL protects workers from layoffs …-2005, particularly for wages of unskilled workers. However, we also find that where workers are well organised, they can take advantage … of EPL to secure higher wages …

and destruction during the period 2003-2012. As local regional-industrial unionisation increases, wages grow. Lay …

We estimate how trade openness affects the relationship between wages, labour productivity and foreign wages using … sector-level time series for several EU member states. In some countries wages became less responsive to foreign wages as … trade costs declined. We show this counter-intuitive result is as expected when wages are set by a monopoly union with a …

In this paper we show that panel estimates of tenure specific sensitivity to the business cycle of wages is subject to … removes a lot of potentially informative variation in average wages. Unfortunately δu cannot be identified in unmatched data …

average by 5%. They also indicate that productivity gains associated to upstreamness are shared almost equally between wages … and profits. However, upstreamness is found to be more beneficial for workers' wages in less competitive environments …

Evidence during the nineties about the response of real wages to shocks highlights that this response is substantially …

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 …

This paper provides the first full examination of the effect of German works councils on wages using matched employer …

union density on firm productivity and wages in the population of Norwegian firms over the period 2001 to 2012. Increases in … union density lead to substantial increases in firm productivity and wages having accounted for the potential endogeneity of …