Contractual Wages and the Wage Cushion under Different Bargaining Settings

By Ana Rute Cardoso, Pedro Portugal. Journal of Labor Economics, 2005

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Rent-Sharing and Collective Bargaining Coverage: Evidence from Linked Employer–Employee Data (2009, unknown): “See e.g. Hartog et al. (2002a, 2002b) and Cardoso and Portugal (2005). establishment-pro ts.”
Regression towards the mode (2012, methodology): “For example, the work of Cardoso and Portugal (2005) andMartins et al. (2010) shows that the mode is the natural measure of central tendency to use when studying the typical hiring wage.”
Adjustment within the euro. The difficult case of Portugal (2007, background): “Such a look suggests that, as wages are typically above those set in sectoral bargaining, there is substantial room for firms to decrease wages, that there is what Portugal and Cardoso call a substantial “wage cushion” (see [7].”
Bargaining, Sorting, and the Gender Wage Gap: Quantifying the Impact of Firms on the Relative Pay of Women (2016, unknown): “As described in the Data Appendix, we successfully match about 53% of firms that appear in the QP between 2002 and 2009 to a firm with at least one year’s information in SABI.”
Downward Nominal and Real Wage Rigidity: Survey Evidence from European Firms (2009, unknown): “As Cardoso and Portugal (2005) argue, in the absence of the wage cushion typical of non-competitive environments, wages are more likely to be rigid, since the leeway firms have for cutting wages in face of a negative shock is reduced.”