Do labour institutions influence how wages respond to the business cycle? Such responsiveness can then shape several …

concerns. When controlling for both worker and firm heterogeneity and instrumenting for concentration, we find that wages are …

We investigate the impact of labour market concentration on two dimensions of job quality, namely wages and job … and local product market concentration, we show that the elasticities of wages with respect to labour market concentration … are strikingly similar across countries: increasing labour market concentration by 10% reduces wages by 0.19% in Germany …

controlled for there is a further pervasive source of bias, namely the co-movement of firm employment and firm wages. In a simple … aggregate or firm level) to firm's employment and wages cause downward bias in OLS regression estimates of RTT. We show that the … between 3.5% and 4.5% of wages at 20 years of tenure - over 80% (50%) of the estimated RTT level itself. The results extend to …

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 cannot be identified in unmatched data …

Does employers' association (EA) membership affect wages? Such effects, positive or negative, could follow from …