/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the misalignment between education-induced productivity gains and … evidence on the moderating roles of age, gender and industry in the relationship between education, productivity and wage costs … costs is more compressed than the education-productivity profile. This effect, robust across industries, is found to …

In many European countries, the majority of workers have their wage rates determined directly by industry …-level agreements. For some workers, industry agreements are supplemented by firm-specific agreements. Yet, the relative importance of … decentralised than in centralised industries, even when controlling for the endogeneity of profits, for heterogeneity among workers …

differentials among workers with the same observed characteristics and working conditions, employed in different sectors. The … hypothesis that workers with better unmeasured abilities are over-represented in high-wage sectors may not be rejected on the … differentials appears to be limited. Further results show that ceteris paribus, workers earn significantly higher wages when …