It is sometimes claimed that the coverage of collective bargaining in Germany is considerably understated because of … orientation, a process whereby uncovered firms profess to shadow the wages set under sectoral bargaining. Yet importantly, at a … time when collective bargaining proper has been in retreat, little is known of corresponding trends in the frequency of …

collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is …

collective bargaining leavers and joiners vis-à-vis the corresponding counterfactual groups. It is reported that average wages …

The effect of collective bargaining on innovation has long been in dispute. At the level of theory, the hold-up problem … impact of collective bargaining on (several measures of) process innovation and product innovation. Our cross section and …, collective bargaining at sectoral level might even be pro innovative. …

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 …