This paper shows that, if observed earnings are the result of employer-employee wage bargaining, under a set of … bargaining power, and provide (further) empirical evidence against this hypothesis. -- Mincer equation ; return to schooling … ; wage bargaining …

In Spain, as in several other European countries, sectoral bargaining agreements are automatically extended to cover … 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 …