This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage … costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed Belgian linked panel data, covering all years … that if upstreamness increases by one step (that is, by approximately, one standard deviation), productivity rises on …

competitiveness (i.e. productivity, wages and profits) while controlling for key econometric issues such as time-invariant unobserved … competitiveness vary across sectors: while temporary employment is found to enhance productivity and profits in (labour …

This paper is one of the first to estimate how the region in which an establishment is located affects its productivity …, wage cost and cost competitiveness (i.e. its productivity-wage gap). To do so, we use detailed linked employer … productivity and wages are significant but vanish almost totally, both in industry and services, when controlling for a wide range …

among youngsters and women. Policies aiming to increase their employability either try to foster their productivity and …/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 …

among youngsters and women. Policies aiming to increase their employability either try to foster their productivity and …/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the misalignment between education-induced productivity gains and … impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using rich Belgian linked employer …

Belgian linked employer-employee panel data, our findings show that firm agreements increase both wage costs and productivity … that firm agreements exert a stronger impact on wages than on productivity, so that profitability is hampered. However … wages beyond productivity when the rents to be shared between workers and firms are relatively big. Overall, this suggests …