Firms' wage policies: New evidence from linked employer-employee data

Abstract

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Wage policy patterns at the firm level: An analysis of medium and large Italian firms

“…The empirical analyses presented in this article are part of the output of the research programme 'Flexible wages for flexible contracts? The dynamics of the relationship between wage policy and employment contracts at the firm level', funded by the Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Science and Technology Foundation) (Suleman et al 2013). Most of the existing analyses of wage policy models are based on econometric estimates where firm-level indicators of wage level, wage structure and wage dynamics play the role of either dependent variables (see e.g.…”