collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the … levels of actual and contractual wages. Cross-sectional and fixed-effects estimations for the period 2001-2006 indicate that …

While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link … between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time … export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to self …

stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …

18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in …

rates and the share of temporary contracts is established. The bargaining hypothesis that job security and wages are … hypothesis is contrasted with Rosen’s theory of equalising differences where security and wages are substitutes. The empirical … insecurity and wages significantly negative level effects are found for Germany with some evidence for those in the UK. There is …

wages with respect to unemployment postulated by Blanchflower and Oswald. In this regime, we also find that works councils … dampen the adjustment of wages to the regional unemployment situation. In the other regimes of plants that either do not make …

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 …