workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be … granted to all low-wage earners regardless of their employment history and are of limitless duration. Our analysis indicates …

This paper provides the first full examination of the effect of German works councils on wages using matched employer …

This study compares the determinants of productivity and wages at both firm and worker level. In the firm …

Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an … robustness checks. Joining a sectoral agreement is found always to produce higher wages, while exiting a sectoral agreement no …

orientation, a process whereby uncovered firms profess to shadow the wages set under sectoral bargaining. Yet importantly, at a … indirect coverage, still less of the degree to which wages are aligned in practice. Using nationally representative data for … 2000-2010, this paper charts the extent of orientation in the uncovered sector, and tracks average wages across bargaining …

centralized bargaining inhibits firms from using wages to induce workers to learn how to use their experience from one set of …

people’s employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …