• Firms’ Beliefs About Wage Setting 

      Bertheau, Antoine; Hoeck, Christian Philip (DP SAM;05/2025, Working paper, 2025-03-06)
      This paper yields new insights into why similar workers are paid differently by surveying a representative sample of Danish firms and linking responses to administrative data. We find that a substantial minority of firms, ...
    • What Makes Hiring Difficult? Evidence from Linked Survey-Administrative Data 

      Bertheau, Antoine; Larsen, Birthe; Zeyu Zhao (DP SAM;20/2023, Working paper, 2023-12)
      We designed an innovative survey of firms and linked it to Danish administrative data to yield new insights about the factors that can influence firms’ hiring decisions. Several important findings stand out: (1) search and ...
    • Why Firms Lay Off Workers Instead of Cutting Wages: Evidence From Linked Survey-Administrative Data 

      Bertheau, Antoine; Kudlyak, Marianna; Larsen, Birthe; Bennedsen, Morten (DP SAM;04/2025, Working paper, 2024-02)
      We use a novel large-scale survey of firms, implemented in Denmark in 2021 and linked to administrative data, to study why firms lay off workers instead of cutting wages. Our questions on layoffs, wage cuts, and the link ...