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The effect of firm-level contracts on the structure of wages : evidence from matched employer-employee data

Card, David E. (contributor); Rica, Sara de la (contributor) - 2004

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 …

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Wage flexibility under sectoral bargaining

Card, David E.; Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2021

collective bargaining agreements, to study the interactions between wage floors and wage cushions and quantify the impact of …

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Unions and wage inequality : the roles of gender, skill and public sector employment

Card, David E.; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, William Craig - 2018

We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our study is motivated by profound recent changes in the composition of the unionized workforce. Historically, union jobs were concentrated among low-skilled men in private sector...

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The role of hours changes for the increase in German earnings inequality

Biewen, Martin; Plötze, Daniela - 2018

Using data from the German Structure of Earnings Survey (GSES), this paper studies the role of changes in working hours for the increase in male and female earnings inequality between 2001 and 2010. We provide both classic decompositions of the variance of log earnings into the variances of...

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Using post-regularization distribution regression to measure the effects of a minimum wage on hourly wages, hours worked and monthly earnings

Biewen, Martin; Erhardt, Pascal - 2024

We evaluate the distributional effects of a minimum wage introduction based on a data set with a moderate sample size but a large number of potential covariates. Therefore, the selection of relevant control variables at each distributional threshold is crucial to test hypotheses about the impact...

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Using distribution regression difference-in-differences to evaluate the effects of a minimum wage introduction on the distribution of hourly wages and hours worked

Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Rümmele, Marian - 2022

This paper evaluates the effects of the newly introduced German minimum wage on the distribution of hourly wages and hours worked. The study is based on the German Structure of Earnings Survey (GSES), the only large scale data set for Germany that includes information on hourly wages and hours...

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