Using a large linked employer-employee data set, this paper studies the extent to which employers insure workers against transitory and permanent firm-level shocks. Particular emphasis is given to the question of whether the amount of wage insurance depends on the nature of industrial relations. Adopting the identification strategy proposed by Guiso et al. (2005), it is shown that wage insuranc...

Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. We circumvent these problems by using an 11-year panel of data on 11,441 German municipalities’ tax rates, 8 percent of which change each year, linked to administrative matched employer-employee data. Consistent with our theoretical model, we find a negative effect of corporate...

This paper examines the relationship between inflation and wage indexation in the postwar U.S. using data on the prevalence of cost-of-living adjustments in major collective bargaining agreements. I find that increases in inflation precede increases in wage indexation but reductions in inflation do not precede reductions in wage indexation. There is virtually no evidence that wage indexation af...

The use of part-time jobs is steadily increasing in most advanced economies. Previous literature has concluded that part-time workers suffer a wage penalty, but its magnitude varies across studies and countries. The part-time penalty is the otherwise unexplained element of the gap between full-time and part-time hourly earnings. One potential factor accounting for international differences in t...

Real Wage Cyclicality of Job Stayers, Within-Company Job Movers, and Between-Company Job Movers Using the British New Earnings Survey Panel Data (NESPD) for the period 1975 to 2001 we estimate the wage cyclicality of job stayers (those remaining within single jobs in a given company), within company job movers, and between company job movers. We also examine how the proportion of internal and e...

Most existing analyses on the gender wage gap (GWG) have neglected the establishment as a place where inequality between male and female employees arises and is maintained. The use of linked employee-employer data permits us to move beyond the individual and consider the importance of the workplace to explain gender pay differentials. That is, we first provide a comprehensive study on the effec...

Abstract The own-wage elasticity of labor demand measures the effect higher wages on firms’ for and, thus, determines impact supply shocks, minimum wages, and collective wage agreements market. I carry out a comprehensive meta-analysis to shed light nature this parameter, leveraging 705 estimates from 105 studies German average is −0.43, but entails important heterogeneity: Labor turns particul...

Does import competition alter the extent to which employers, after negotiating workers’ wages upon hire, subsequently shield those wages from external labor-market conditions? If increased competition induces a switch away from these wage implicit agreements, then (1) the sensitivity of workers’ wages to the current unemployment rate should increase as competition increases and (2) the sensitiv...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: F12 J50 L11 Keywords: Free entry Labour union Trade cost In contrast to the existing partial equilibrium literature considering the effects of a trade cost reduction on unionised wage under a given market structure, we show the effects by determining the domestic market structure endogenously. A lower trade cost reduces the number of active domestic fir...

One of the most remarkable economic consequences of German unification was a rise by more than 100% in DM wages paid to Eastern German workers over the period 1990-1995, despite sharply rising unemployment and persistently low labor productivity. While wage convergence is consistent with economic integration, the evidence suggests that it was substantially accelerated by the West German collect...