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Rent-sharing : Does the Bargaining Regime Make a Difference? Theory and Empirical Evidence

Gürtzgen, Nicole - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

This paper analyses whether wages in Germany respond to firm-specific profitability conditions. Particular emphasis lies on the question of whether the extent of rent-sharing varies across different systems of wage determination. Those may be categorised into sector-specific wage agreements,...

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Rent-Sharing and Collective Bargaining Coverage: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Gürtzgen, Nicole - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

Using a linked employer-employee data set, this paper analyses the relationship between firm-profitability and wages. Particular emphasis is given to the question of whether the sensitivity of wages to firm-specific rents varies with collective bargaining coverage. To address this issue, we...

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Firm Heterogeneity and Wages Under Different Bargaining Regimes: Does a Centralised Union Care for Low-productivity Firms?

Gürtzgen, Nicole - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

This paper studies the relationship between wages and the degree of firm heterogeneity in a given industry under different wage setting structures. To derive testable hypotheses, we set up a theoretical model that analyses the sensitivity of wages to the variability in productivity conditions in...

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Rent-Sharing and Collective Bargaining Coverage: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Gürtzgen, Nicole - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

Using a linked employer-employee data set, this paper analyses the relationship between firm profitability and wages. Particular emphasis is given to the question of whether the sensitivity of wages to firm-specific rents varies with collective bargaining coverage. To address this issue, we...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098144

The Effect of Firm- and Industry-Level Contracts on Wages: Evidence from Longitudinal Linked Employer-Employee Data

Gürtzgen, Nicole - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

Using a large linked employer-employee data set, this paper presents new evidence on the wage premium under collective bargaining contracts in western and eastern Germany. The novel feature of our analysis is that we use a longitudinal data set. In contrast to previous studies, we seek to assess...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098218

The Effect of Firm- ans Industry-Level Contracts on Wages: Evidence from Longitudinal Linked Employer-Employee Data

Gürtzgen, Nicole - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

Using a large linked employer-employee data set, this paper presents new evidence on the collective bargaining wage effect in western and eastern Germany. The novel feature of our analysis is that we use a longitudinal data set. Thus, in contrast to previous studies, we seek to assess the extent...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098248

What explains the decline in wage mobility in the German low-wage sector?

Aretz, Bodo; Gürtzgen, Nicole - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

In this paper, we study how wage mobility in the low-wage sector has changed in western Germany between 1984 and 2004 …. Using German individual register data, we document a clear upward trend in the persistence of low-wage employment for both … explained by an increase in genuinestate dependence, which occurs if low-wage employment today causes lowwage employment in the …

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