government legislated or are the outcome of collective bargaining agreements, which are extended erga omnes to all workers. We … level of the minimum wage. -- Minimum wages ; collective bargaining ; statutory minimum …

Two-tier bargaining structures, in which plant-level wage negotiations supplement industry-level wage setting, are … of firms to collective bargaining, and do not seem to improve either microeconomic and macroeconomic adjustment to shocks. …

. This paper models wage rigidity and collective bargaining endogenously, when workers differ by observable skill and may … adopt either individualized or collective wage bargaining. In the calibrated model, a substantial fraction of workers and … firms as well as the median voter prefer collective bargaining to the decentralised regime. A fundamental distortion of the …

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 …

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