Swedish wage setting has undergone drastic changes during the last 10-15 years. While Sweden was known for its narrow wage distribution, wage differentiation and wage bargaining at the individual level has become leading principles among white-collar workers ’ unions. The purpose of the present

Paper presented at the 1996 meetings of the American economic Association,

This paper identifies some of the determinants of individual mobility in the wage distribution over time. The proposed model takes attrition as well as the decile of origin into account unlike all other used models to describe the wage mobility. A simpel probit analysis is compared with the more

In this paper we consider a model for the heterogeneity and dynamics of the conditional mean and the conditional variance of standardized individual wages. In particular, we propose a dynamic panel data model with individual e¤ects both in the mean and in a conditional ARCH type variance function

Abstract—We consider the effect of geography on wages using individual data from 56 Chinese cities. We present a simple new economic geography model that links wages to individual characteristics and market access. The latter is calculated as a transport cost weighted sum of surrounding locations

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, yet this çvidence ignores the decisions that have brought individuals to the combination of wages, job tenure, and experience that areobserved in survey data. Allowing for sources of bias generated by these decisions, this paper uses longitudinal data to estimate a lower bound on the avenge return

in several ways. Ex-ante heterogeneity affects directly the levels and the slopes of wages but it also affects, joint with realized labor market histories, the search technology used by individuals, namely arrival rates of wage offers, separation rates and reservation wages. The model is estimated using

This paper examines Australian household data from over 4000 individuals to assess how downwardly flexible nominal wages have been during the period 1997 to 2000. The data indicate that there is considerable downward rigidity. Only 7.4 per cent of workers who are still working the same hours

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