Using a longitudinal matched employer-employee data set for Portugal over the 1986-2005period, this study analyzes the heterogeneity in wages responses to aggregate labor marketconditions for newly hired workers and existing workers. Accounting for both worker and firmheterogeneity, the data...

In this paper we use a novel approach and a large Portuguese employer-employee paneldata set to study the hypothesis that industrial agglomeration improves the quality of the firmworkermatching process. Our method makes use of recent developments in the estimationand analysis of models with...