Firm-level contracting and the structure of wages in Spain
In many European countries, sectoral bargaining agreements are automatically extended to cover all firms in an industry. Employers and employees can also negotiate firm-specific contracts. The authors of this paper use a large matched employer-employee data set from a 1995 survey in Spain to study the effects of firm-level contracting on the structure of wages. They estimate a series of wage determination models, including specifications that control for individual characteristics, coworker characteristics, the bargaining status of the workplace, and the probability that the workplace was covered by a firm-level contract. They find that firm-level contracting was associated with a 5-10% wage premium, with larger premiums for more highly paid workers. Although they cannot decisively test between alternative explanations for the firm-level contracting premium, they find that workers with firm-specific contracts had significantly longer job tenure than other workers, suggesting that the premium was at least partially a non-competitive phenomenon. (Free full-text download available at http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/ilrreview/.)
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2006
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Authors: | Card, David ; Rica, Sara de la |
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Industrial and Labor Relations Review. - School of Industrial & Labor Relations, ISSN 0019-7939. - Vol. 59.2006, 4, p. 573-592
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School of Industrial & Labor Relations |
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