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Changes in Bargaining Status and Intra-Plant Wage Dispersion in Germany: A Case of (Almost) Plus Ça Change?
Addison, John T.; Kölling, Arnd; Teixeira, Paulino - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
exact contribution of deununionization is a matter of debate, perhaps no more so than in Germany, our case study. The … Germany more generally. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010812516
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Collective Bargaining and Innovation in Germany: Cooperative Industrial Relations?
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
representative data for Germany – for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime – to investigate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734418
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The Institutional Context of an "Empirical Law": The Wage Curve under Different Regimes of Collective Bargaining
Blien, Uwe; Dauth, Wolfgang; Schank, Thorsten; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578120
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Centralized vs. Decentralized Wage Formation: The Role of Firms' Production Technology
Hirsch, Boris; Merkl, Christian; Müller, Steffen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
setting due to labor cost and straitjacket effects. As firms in Germany are allowed to choose their wage formation regime, we … test these two hypotheses with representative establishment data for West Germany. We find that establishments with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103271
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Sharp Teeth or Empty Mouths? Revisiting the Minimum Wage Bite with Sectoral Data
Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The paper explores the link between different institutional features of minimum wage systems and the minimum wage bite. We notably address the striking absence of studies on sectoral-level minima and exploit unique data covering 17 European countries and information from more than 1100...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990915
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Impacts of Unionization on Quality and Productivity: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Nursing Homes
Sojourner, Aaron J.; Frandsen, Brigham R.; Town, Robert J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper studies the effects of nursing home unionization on numerous labor, establishment, and consumer outcomes using a regression discontinuity design. We find negative effects of unionization on staffing levels and no decline in care quality, suggesting positive labor productivity effects....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959528
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Unions and Collective Bargaining in the Wake of the Great Recession
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper provides the first definitive estimates of union density in Portugal, 2010-2012, using a unique dataset. The determinants of union density at firm level are first modeled. Next, we draw upon a very recent study of the union wage premium to provide summary estimates of the union wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011214034
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Setting the Minimum Wage
Boeri, Tito - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The process leading to the setting of the minimum wage so far has been fairly overlooked by economists. This paper suggests that this is a serious limitation as the setting regime contributes to explain cross-country variation in the fine-tuning of the minimum wage, hence in the way in which the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015486
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The Process of Wage Adjustment: An Analysis Using Establishment-Level Data
Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdón-Sánchez, José Enrique; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This article presents a study of the influences on the factors that shape wage adjustments. The cost of living, comparability with other firms' wages, the fulfilment of collective agreements at sector level, the need to recruit and retain employees, the performance of the organisation, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323396
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Does Institutional Diversity Account for Pay Rules in Germany and Belgium?
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
) higher overall pay inequality in Germany; (II) higher pay inequalities between employees and workers in Belgium; and (III …) higher (lower) impact of educational credentials (work-post tenure) on earnings in Germany. We provide survey-based empirical … institutional details: although Germany and Belgium belong to the same "variety of capitalism", we provide evidence that small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325420