Inspite of the centralized nature of wage bargaining in Italy, we find some evidence suggesting the existence of firm … individual wages throughout the whole distribution increase as average firm wages increases, but the spread increases too. Firm … of average change in wages. Worker-based statistics, on the other side, show that relative changes in individual wages …

Italy that combines Social Security earnings records for employees with detailed financial information for employers to … strong evidence of rent-sharing, with a "Lester range" of variation in wages between profitable and unprofitable firms of …

's theoretical framework: (i) wages are higher in states with more generous unemployment benefits, (ii) the perceived probability of …

Following Phillip's original work on the UK, applied research on unemployment and wages has been dominated by the … Curve, no autoregression is found in wages. The paper casts doubt on standard ideas in macroeconomics, regional economics …

try to prevent a cut in nominal wages. If inflation is so low that some nominal wages have to be cut, the strategic …

. The value of nonemployment is therefore a key determinant of wages. We measure the wage effect of changes in the value of … large reforms of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit levels in Austria. We document that wages are insensitive to UI benefit … sensitivities larger than $0.03. The insensitivity holds even among workers with low wages and high predicted unemployment duration …

earnings by the entire nominal employer share of the tax increase. If wages play a motivational role but the market still … clears, the range of possible outcomes is broader but wages should still not rise if the tax is nominally divided 50/50. In … effects of wages are important but cannot clearly distinguish between the efficiency wage and market-clearing versions of …

relationships, payment of efficiency wages, the relative response of wages and employment to business cycle shocks, and the …