This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of … by real wage losses below the median. Coverage by collective wage bargaining plummets by 16.5 (19.1) percentage points … shows that all workplace related effects (firm effects and bargaining effects) and coefficients for personal characteristics …

the form of wage drift, partly offset collective bargaining, granting firms a high degree of freedom when setting wages …This paper aims at answering the question: How does a typically 'European' bargaining system - with collective … bargaining, extension mechanisms and national minimum wage - coexist with low unemployment rate and high wage flexibility? A …

inequality for women. At the establishment level, we compare average wages under firm-level and sectoral bargaining, controlling …-specific contracting raises average wages, with a pattern of effects that tends to increase inequality relative to sectoral bargaining for …In Spain, as in several other European countries, sectoral bargaining agreements are automatically extended to cover …

bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective … bargaining agreements works councils are more likely to be engaged in productivity enhancing activities and less engaged in rent … works councils has a positive effect on wages within the uncovered industrial relations regime but not to the same degree …

This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth …, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Its focus is upon mid-career promotion and wages … the private sector (and no less likely in the public sector); that wages are increasing in promotion, and the effect is …

costs influence insider wages and outsiders’ opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also …

Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an …-samples, comprising collective bargaining joiners and never members on the one hand and collective bargaining leavers and always members … robustness checks. Joining a sectoral agreement is found always to produce higher wages, while exiting a sectoral agreement no …

of one wage, however, provides a surprisingly good first approximation of the structure of U.S. wages. This … differentials, product market regulation and the labor market, wages in male and female jobs, the wage effects of military service …, and interarea wages and cost-of-living. …